Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 28, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 April 1907 — Page 3

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TfflE CHAI3ITY GIRL Dy EFFIE A. ROWLANDS

CHAPTER XII. (Continued.) Next day, about lunch time, the ountess. her children and attendants, arrived, with much clatter and importance. I Sheila by accident, of course--was just j com ins down vhe stairs as Lady Dales-

-water was ascending them. i -There was a mutual start, and then a j cordial greeting. Sheila was looking won- : derfully prettj in her long sealskin manj tie, her ruddy, golden hair making a bit

i u"iii cuior Deneam uer ueai I match. Lady Daleswater was pleased to f approve of her probable future sister-in-

Ton here. Miss Fräser!" she exclaim-

-? ed. This is quite a delightful surprise. I pictured yoi in Mountberry, enjoying I yourself." i "I T.as compelled to cotne to London ,J on business matters, and," Sheila added, ; with a tiny sigh that did not escape Lady I Hales water's keen ears. "Mountberry is I not particularly lively just now." 1 "Can yon give me ary news of my brother U he really so dangerously hurt? Ifamma is such ai alarmist, yon know. Sheila assumed a sad, anxious look, j. although in reality she was not aware exactly how Jack was at that particular moment, and had never been very much frightened even at the verdict of I the London doctors. "I am afraid he is very ill, she said la a low voice. j Lady Daleswater did not seem much I impressed. I I hope yon are not returning home immediately? No? Oh. that is delightI ful. and still more delightful that you I ahculd bf staying here. You must come I In dine with me to-night. Mrs. Fraacr is with you?

Sheila explained that her chaperone was her cousin, Mrs. Watson. "We shall remain in London for a little while, she said, and I hope to see a rreaj deal of you. Perhaps I may be abl' to prevail on yea to come down to If Jeswater House when I go back there. rx rrv .tnll mr dear Sheila:

- - - - - but " 4 But "my dear She'la" would have gladly welcomed months of dullness to get I nach an invitation a3 this. Her spirits I rose brilliantly, and she laid herself out I to please Lady Daleswater.

Three days later the Earl of Daleswater arrived in London, and immedi3 ately, at his wife's instigation, went j down to Mountberry to see how matters I were, and the very same, afternoon, as I Sheila sat yawning over a novel by the I fire, the door opened and Beverley P.ocht fort was announced. She started up eag erly to greet him. "Where bars you been? I thought you were, never coming back, she dejclared. 'I have been busy, he said. "I have iiot been wasting time. I assure you. Yon wonder what took me out of London? Well. I will tell you. I went down to I soothe the last moments of Roderick Anstruther. Yes, it sounds curious, doesn't Jft? But Fate for some strange reason brought this man to our rescue just when we needed him." j "How can be help us?" asked Sheila. 4 Incredulously, although her face was 'i Hushing with excitement. "More' espelially if, as I understand you to infer, iie is now oV d." - "You shall see, Miss Fraser. Ans1 :rather met me cut in Africa; he' then I vent under another name. I always liked die man. there was something grim yet vonderful about him. When be found was coming to England he gave me a acket of papers to bring to his lawrers ; before delivering them I took the precaution of sounding these lawyers irt, and as easily as possible I soon Uscovered my companion's real name. 'Seedless to say, I did not deliver the epers, more especially when I found hat Anstruther was in England, and Supposed to be dying he had evidently und hi end coming, and rushed over o see Mrs. Fraser before he died. I 'at .nee traveled off to seek him. and, of curse, bad to tell a few dozen lies or so o Explain why I had done so. 7Vrtuatejy, the man was too ill to protest r question much ; all he asked, all he anted, wa. to see Constance Fra3er, and ncfess the truth of his treachery toward er and his brother. And yoa call this helping as, Mr. jochfort?" v j "As Roderick is dead, and did not conss to Mrs. Fraser, I certainly do. To lease him I drew up a sort o," written :atement, to which he managed :o scrawl is name just at the very last. Here is m' document. Shall I tell you what it jntains. Miss Fraser?" ! Sheila nodded her head. "This is the last dying confession of ,oderick Anstruther, in which he owns having separated bis brother from his ife for sheer malice. In which he also nfesses that his brother's child did rally die. and that the girl now living ,the offspring of a secret marriage beYvti himself and some country woman.", V?nd she is that really T Sheila asked. ! "o, certainly not. Audrey, according f- hier ancle's dying confession, is the ild of Frank and Constance Anstruther. yi forget. I am reading what I wrote, it what Roderick Anstruther told me torite." . "Well?" the girl said after this, as her off cleared. "This document then goes on to will e whole of thp dead man' fortune and ssessions to'thi3 aforesaid hild of i on one condition, viz., that she heme my wife before six months elapse; she refuses, shJo he placed once re in the Feru-tOrphan Asylum till aae definite and equally disagreeable ode is found for her. You will see it I have been very careful and very plicit. Miss Fraser. I have left noth- ; undone that can possibly help us." "You forget, she may always refuse," eila aaid, gloomily. Thla is not what xad expected." I am not bo nervous of failure," Bevey returned. "Audrey will be a rich man if he becomes my wife, and her will not be an enviable one if aha uses." There is Mrs. Fraser to be faced." 'Mrs. Fraser will cease to have anyirdianship over the girl when this dooent is rend." 'Who will be hr guardian?" asked ?i!a. 'I am left the ' one sole and entire rdian of Miss Audrey Anstruther. deceive him was easy, to explain to lawyers a trifle more difficult; but vns noon done. When you peruse this er carpfully you will se that the reaRoderkk Anstruther reposes such t in me is because a few years ago aved his life at the risk of my own, bocaii.-so we were firm and never partfriends out in Africa together. I give elf great credit for those two lies, s Fraser; they come in so naatly, and i carry the day. you see." heila looked at him quietly. She was - Ax impressed, yet not quite satisfied. Us you invented so quickly and easily, I j did you uot put in some clause about 4 being forbidden to marry any one but I T she asked 1 rhe time was so brief; at any moI t the lawyers might hnve come down. 1 sidering all things, I have worked 5 "ders. Remember, I am her sole and

re guard 'an, and I, for my part, do jfear success." hey were suddenly Interrupted by a knock at the door, the handle was 'ed, and Lady Daleswater awept in, i i t

Her face was very white, her lips compressed and pale; in her hand was crumpled a telegram. Sheila ran to meet her quickly. "Dear Lady Daleswater, what Is the matter?" she cried. "This is from my husband. My brother John has disgraced himself and his family. Instead of lying at the point of death, he has married your stepmother's supposed daughter. He has tied himsc'f and his honorable name f. life to a wretched charity girl !"

CHAPTER XIII. If she lived to be a hundred years, Audrey would never forget that scene. Her mother had come back from Craiglands deeply moved and agitated ; and the girl's great, sorrowful eyes had asked the question her frozen lips could not frame. Constance Fraser had drawq the slender form to her arms without a word at first. Words, indeed, were not easy. It was a strange thing that had happened; her brain reeled every now and then as it all came back to her. Constance Frasr kissed the sweet, quivering lips. "Jack wants you ; he wants you to stay with him always. Do you understand me, my darling?" "He wants me to nurse him?" Audre said simply, her every limb quivering with eagerness to be gone. "To nurse, comfort and love him!" The mother's hand stroked back the soft locks. "Audrey, he has asked me to give you to him. as his wife.". A flood of color burned on each pale cheek, and then the girl paled ashen white again. "As his wife?" she repeated, slowly; and then, more quickly, "Does he want me now?" "As soon a3 every arrangement can be made, my own dearest. Dees this frighten you. Audrey?" "No." she said, almost inandibly. "If he wishes it, that is right. I am glad!" Then, catching suddenly at the two slender hands held out to her, "Mother, can I see him soon?" "You shall go to him to-morrow, my darling. It will not do to excite him too much. The marriage ceremony will take plaoe to-morrow, we hope. You. too. must rest and take care of yourself, my lily 3ower. my darling." Audrey sat down as in a stupor. She did not half realize what was going to happen; she only knew that in a few short hours she would see him again, her hero, her beloved; that was joy enough to daze her; she could not grasp the fullness of it all at once. It was his hand that clasped hers, and yet how changed. Audrey could not see the pale, weak, clear face for the mist of tears that rose before her eyes. The girl suffered a great shock at sight of him she loved lying prostrate on his pillow, barely able to speak or to smile. The duchess had kissed Audrey tenderly. "She is lovely! Perfectly beautiful!" she had said to Constance Frasr. "No wonder my poor boy loves her so deeply." Mr. Thorngate read the service, and Mrs. Thorngate stood with the others round the bed. Dr. Sentance was close at hand ; he watched his patient narrowly. Certainly it almost looked as if the small flicker of life must suddenly go out. The pulse was very weak, the heart's action uneven, yet the doctor knew that if human will would carry a, much-desired point. Lord John G lend ur wood would, with the latest breath, speak the words that made Audrey his wife. In whispers, weak in voice, strong In purpose, John Glecdurwood spoke his marriage tows. Audrey repeated the words she was bid to utter in a dim, mechanical fashion. She woke for an instant as her lover's feeble hand tried to push the ring over the little finger, but after that she was conscious of nothing save that the face before her grew paler and paler, his hands weaker in their hold. As the rector pronounced the benediction, the duchess gave a cry. -He is gone! He it ead ! My Jack ! My boy!" The brisk, kind-hearted little doctor read the conditions in a moment. "We must nn have you fainting, too, Lady John," iia said, sharply. "Come, hold the bottle to your husband's nose, snd pas3 your hand slowly across his brow. I expect you to h$lp me, you know. A great deal depends on yoa now. It is passing. Complete and utter exhaustion. Now, Lady John, I want you to kneel down, fco that your husband can see you the first thing he opens his eyes." Audrey obeyed him instantly. The faintest flicker of life was visible in the dravrt), white face. "Bend down and kiss him," commanded Dr. Sentance. A flush spread over the girl's beautiful face.- -She did not hesitate; stooping, she pressed her fresh, sweet lips to those dry, parched ones. A low cry escaped the sick man. "Audrey, it is yoa no dream my own darling " Dr. Sentance nodded his head again, and then he lifted Audrey from her knees. "Now, Lady John," he said, authoritatively, "your duty is not nearly ended ; you are to sit here and watch your husband. Don't let him speak, only now and then moisten his lips with a little of this liquid. Let him see yoa and know you are here. You will be the best doctor for him,' after all." So saying. Dr. Sentance moved out of the room, and beckoned Mrs. Thorngate to follow him. "Well?" she asked, breathlessly, once outside. "I do not sa." for certain, but my belief Is he will live," was the doctors reply. ' , CHAPTER XIV. Ail throujli the night and late into the following day, Audrey sat like a statue beside her husband's bed. Toward evening he had sunk into a deep, silent aep. "It will be his salvation," declared Dr. Sentance to the duchess and Constance Fraser, as they sat together in poor Lord Iverne'a room. "Nothing could be better." "Oh, Dr. Sentance! Then there is really some hope?" cried the poor mother, her haggard face lighting up into something like its former solf. Two days later the Earl of Daleswater came down t3 Mountberry unexpectedly, lie was a plain, weak, inordinately conceited man; who was ruled entirely by his wife, and he held forth on the impropriety of this terrible marriage in a manner worthy of his wife herself. "Now that you are quite finished. George," said the duchess coldly, "I think the best thin you can do is to return to London and Gladys as soon as possible." "Am I to understand that you turn me out?" he asked furiously. "Do you forget who I am?" "I think it is I who should ask that question, Lord Daleswater," the duchess replied, rearing her bead with dignity. "You have eddressed me in a manner which I would never tolerate from my nearest and dearest. You have been pleased to pass censure on my actions, and vilify a young and lovely young girl who is my son's wife, and against whom neittar jtm nor any one elsa can launch

single objection save that she has had an unhappy childhood, and that she is poor. My daughter Gladys should congratulate herself on the result of her schooling; you are an apt pupi.', my lord." "Your grace will pleace to understand that from to-day all intercourse between: yourself and my wife is at an end." the little man went on. getting quite insolent in his anger. The duchoss made no sicm while hr son-in-law ran on in his infuriated and insolent manner, but as the door opened and he came to an abrupt end. she turned on him. "The carriage is ready. Lord Daleswater; you have really no time to lose." Lord Daleswater's brows turned purple with suppressed fury; rage, insults rushed to his lips; but somehow the sight of the tall, commanding woman, regal in bearing and dignity, and the quick sense that she had conquered him. carried the moment without a word or sign ; he turned and strode out of the room. ' (To be continued.)

BLUE FLOWERS OF THE AN 13 ES. How Pretty- Girln Sell the Blomftotns to Mountain Traveler. Some of the smaller of the' railroad towns of Chill are well worth braving; a trip by the slow train to see. There Is one I remember In particular, situated near the summit of the divide between the valleys of the Maboeho and Llal Llai, where the great mountain blue flowers and the little Andean deer are brought down. The stranrely beautiful blue flower of the Cordillera blossoms only for a few weeks In the spring, at which time it Is gathered high up at the snow line by the lithesome village maidens and brought down to the train to sell. The petals, blue as the sky, are as delicate, soft and pliable as the palm of a fine kid glove, and resist tearing almost as strongly.- If a petal Is twisted and wrung between the fingers it exudes a drop of liquid possessing a most jowerful and penetrating, but thoroughly pleasing odor. This Juice is as strong as a flavoring extract, and a drop of It will give a perceptible taste to a gallon of water, from which arises a practice In witchery by the wily mountain maids. They wait until you are finishing your breakfast, when one slips up to your side and holds a big bunch of flowers for you to bury your face in by way of sampling, while another executes a flank movement on your unprotected side and drops Mine bruised petals Into your rofle. When your face comes out of the flowers and yoa begin to sip your coffee, they both laugh and clap their hands and tell you not to be angry, as It Is only a "costumbie del pueblo" a custom of the village. Of course, you nre not angry ; and If you are not pretty mean, you are sure to buy blue flowers from then on till . train time at prices as lofty as their habitat This blue flower craze doesn't hoid you long, but while It lasts It would be cheaper to be an orchid fancier. ' It Is much cheaper, In fact, far more satisfactory In the long run, to buy deer than blue flowers; the deer yon can ship In the baggage car, while the blue flowers require personal attention. And even If you do enter Valparaiso with the deer l your arms your friends will not ask you If you were drugged -Into buying It. That's the trouble with the blue flowers every one knows 'where you got them, and from whom you got them. They don't know how much It cost you to get them, except that it was a lot more than they are worth. Los Angeles Times. Pathefc Plea Not Lost. Governor F lk once told of a lawyer In Arkansas tvho was defending a young man ol i malodorous record. -Ignoring the record, however, the counsel proceeded to draw a harrowing picture of the white-haired, aged father In St Louis, awaiting anxious.' the return of the prodigal son to spend the Christmas holidays with him, "Have you the hearts," declaimed the lawyer to the Jury, "to deprive the poor old man of this happInessV The jury, however, found the prisoner guilty. Before passing sentence the judge called for the prisoner's Jail record and after n careful examination of the same he blandly observed: "I find that this prisoner has some five previous convictions against him. Nevertheless. I am happy to state that the learned counsel's appeal will not remain unanswered, for I shall commit the prisoner to the Little Itock jail, where, at the present moment, his aged parent Is serving a term of ten years, so that father anil son will be enabled to pass the ensuing Chrlstmastlde under one roof," No Delay. Old Karnes.- a had just completed the great canal between the Nile and the Red Sea. "Wonderful achievement," exclaimed the visitors: "what Is the secret of your success?" "Why," laughed old Kameses, "1 lauded the man with the spade and beheaded the man with the muck rake." : 1 Sadden 1. 1ft. "How did you get up here?" asked St Peter. "I didn't send for you." The much battered man rubbed the dLit frcm his eyes. ' "i stepped In front of a racing automobile aad It sent me sky high," be paid simply. "Admitted!" said St. Teter, sympathetically, as he turned the key. Hard lilts. "Have you any felt gloves?'' asked the costonier in the big store. . "Felt gloves?" replied the polite clerk reaching for a green box; "certainly, sir. Here they are." "Why, those are boxing gloves Haven't you made mistake'' "Not at all, sir. Moxlng g'oves are felt more than any other kind." AVilünfr Victim. Mayme I made an election bet with Jack, and I won. Edyth Did he pay up? Mayme Yes, indeed. He paid double. Edyth Foolish boy! Mayme Oh, I don't know. We bet kisses. - neK'iinlnfir of the Trouble. Mrs. Newed Did you really mean It when you said my pies were Just like those your mother used to make. Newed Yes, dear. And you know I ran away from home when I was a boy. ICany for Ulm. "What bushy eyelashes Mr. Swags has!", "Urn! That's the reason he gives' such sweeping glances." Machine Mad. "What do political machines manufacture pa?" "Bolts, Bobby." Kansas City Times.

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fit Motherhood. This is one of the most beautiful words in our language beautiful, not as a collocatioir of letter symbols or sounds, but for its manifold meaning. When it Is pronounced in appropriate connection a swarm of gentle and tender thoughts spring up and hover altout it like honey-laden bees around their hive; for It is generally conceded that the highest type of human affection, the purest, most self-sacrificing, most enduring, is that of motherhood. In law, in custom, hi literature, In art, in religion, the richest tributes of admiration and respect have been laid at the feet of the mother. It Is not Ki range that among certain peoples, notably the Hebrews, maternity was eagerly desired by married women ; and the grief of those who remained unmarried after nttulning a marriageable age was not that they failed to capture a man, but that they were denied children. While to be a married woiuan and be childless was regarded as a reproach. Rachel's apical to her husband, "(live .ne children or I die," is the pathetic outcry of a heart that was breaking from its unsatisfied longing for motherhood. One would conclude from certain positive utterances in the press that the maternal Instinct has quite expired In American wives of the better grade; that Is. the more intelligent grade; but It is -well ascertained that it survives, though not so generally and intensely as is desirable. A little more simplicity in the mode of life, a little lesSj of bondage to the despotic mandates of society, a little more of domesticity or plain love of liome, and nature will assert herself, to elevate the race and to bless the world. The Pilgrim. A Woninn' Akf. ".Seventy years young" i the clever phrase that fitted well the birthday of famous New England woman who had kept untouched by time her vivacious interest in life and youth. Now that women are learning that with them, as with men, it Is true that one Is as old iis one feels that their secret as well as that of men resides in powers of mind and graces of spirit. In vivacity and sympathy and broad-mindedness and s'iontaneinis affection and ripeness and serenitj" they no longer conceal a birthday like a crime or tell contemporaries. vh know better, white lies about their ae. Silence or even deception as to their years has been rendered useless for thousands of American women by their college diplomas. When a hundred classmates know approximately the ages of one another, ti e secret of the passing years becomes an open one. "You can't be more than M or less than 51," said a heartless aluuina to one who was coyly refusing her r.ge to a gatherer of statistics. "The Class of 1S71" is a label hardly less illuminating than "Barn In 1ST." Moreover, college relationships have a tendency to keep women young, by Inducing them to resume the schoolgirl attitude whenever they meet one another, and by creating a bond which holds them to "the girls" of ' ages and all places. The supreme compliment to a woman remains the same as three centuries ago. As time passes It becomes possible to apply it to more and more of the sex. Originally said of the wicked, fascinating, irresistible queen, whom not even her adorers could honor, It may come to be true of the best of women the world over: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Ilcr Infinite variety. Youth's Companion. Without exception the skirts which are worn with the bodice coats are strictly tailor-made. They may be fashioned with tucks Innumerable or they may be strapped, banded or otherwise trimmed, but over all there will be the tailor finish, which, contrasting with the coat, gives it the required "new" appearance. This effect Is gained in many ways, and Its popularity Is bound to give the plaited skirt not only a new lease of life, but a stronger vogue than it enjoyed even at the beginning of Its reign. There are really two distinct classes of jumpers, those to be worn with twopiece street suits over lingerie or shirt waists, and which practically convert such street suits into dresses;, and the fancy Junior, which may b3 worn with a silk or cloth skirt with ierfect propriety at simple dinners and to concerts and the theater. Those Included In the first class must be made of material like that of the skirt, or of different material which ierfeetly matches the skirt in color, or of the principal color In the skirt If the latter be of check' or plaid. A milliner with a turn for philosophy declares that a woman's character is Infallibly revealed by the hat she wears. "There are audacious hats, modest hats, ridiculous hats and hats that reveal the wearer as ca'itiois and secretive. As a rule a woman of strung personality may be trusted to choose a hat to suit her. She Is strong enough to withstand the temptation to wear something merely fashionable.. The tiilgar, self-assertive woman generally select a 'loud, obtrusive hat. but even that I prefer to the funsreal style of headgear affected by the morbid woman." Women who nre clever enough to trim their own hats ought to be interested in a little invention for holding the hat In any position while It is being trimmed. It Is one of those simple little affairs that makes one wonder why it hadn't been thought of long ago,

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PHETTY DESIGN for it consists of merely a steel rod that Is clamped to a table. At one end of the rod is a movable arm that may be adjusted at any angle and attached to the arm is a flexible steel band that fits In the crown of the hat and that may be made larger or smaller as desired. One of the most troublesome things about t-lmmlng a hat Is holding it In such a position that the hat isn't crushed, yet firmly enough to sew the trimming on, and there was probably never a woman who didn't wish she had at least three hands while she was struggling with a bandeau or a facing. The hat holder does away with any desire for an extra hand and saves considerable temper and no doubt a certain amount of time. liest is absolutely necessary to every one. There must be periods of relaxation moments when the mind and soul and body gather force for continued activity. The thing one should guard agilnst Is taking rest at the wrong moment. Herein lies most of the success of li?e resting at the right time. Too many make the mistake of undertaking to do more than they can shoulder. They begin a task that does not belong to them. They are over-ambitious, and "by that sin fell the angels." In trying to do more than they can do they fail utterly. ' But In doing those tasks that belong to us there Is a danger of growing weary a little and resting at the wrong moment. Just at that crucial point one should seize determlnatiou and go on to the end. Great accomplishments have been given up lecause one wanted lo take rest at the wrong minute. After a large duty is done, large relaxation should follow. Tower is judged by the amouut of work one may do without exhaustion. Molel (or Wives and Allowance. The story is told of a noted St Louis business nian, one who had earned a fortune during his business career, being, brought face to face with business failure, the necessity for selling his handsome residence and beginning at the bottom again Immediately confronting him, going home with a sad heart t- tell the wife of his youth of the misfortune that hod oouie to them. "Never mind," said she, "X have enough to start you out agaiu to my own credit In the bank." (lOing for her bank book she. displayed to her astonished husband a credit cf $31,000, the sum she had saved fron; her liberal allowance during the years of their prosperity. With this sum the husband met all the demands upon him and continued In business. St.. Joseph Gazette. Two Bcuutlful Hats. 1 Iff 1 Light brown velvet tiimmed with yellow and brown osprey leathers. , 2 1'ale green braid with white plumes and pink roses. FftNhionuhle Gern. Of the minor gems of which the smartly gowned woman now makes much theve is a translucent green stone known as amazonitc. It Is of vivid and yet a soft green, ami purIosely is worn on a platinum chain to look as If detached, and to make a bright center of color on a white blouse. Hose quartz Is another of the same kind used for necklace ornaments and hatpins. Aquamarine In pale blue or green, once worn In little

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j?V CjVZjCiSjSjSSjj FOR A TUE FROCK. brooches to fasten old-fashioned turn down lace collars, Is another favorite and. like the rose crystal, is made Intc beads, hatpins, pendants, buttons ano chains. EES Tailored linen and pongee costume will again be in vogue for warn weather. The new petticoats and underskirt! are really too pretty to be hidden under a dress skirt Chiffon and marquisette skirts ovci checked or str ied silk foundations ar worn with taffeta coats,' the color of the thin fabric. Castor brown, tobacco brown, golJec brown and cinnamon brown, as well m the pale chocolates, biscuits, putty and apricot tones, are' found amang spring shades. Lattice work of ribbon is found oti many sheer evening fabrics, while lat tlce work of braid, both wide and nar row, is used on several chic tailored cloth gowns. - Period gowns will characterize many of the spring and summer models fot evening wear. One will see costumes on the lines of those worn in the day of Louis XV.- and Louis XVL. There will bo empire aud semi-empire and even the classical princess robe. The, general type of spring suit9 comprises u short plaited skirt and a severe little coat. From this general rule, however, there are numberless variations In the way of materials, strappings, buttons, revers, tassels and sleeves, to say nothing of passementerie and style of coat. Pastel tints will make many of the new cloth suits for visiting dresses. This coloring is. If anything, myre vague than formerly. The preference seems to be with the pastel greens, blues, pink and grays. Some of the newest material; have a white sheen; others are faintly shot with another pastel tint, and still others show glints of dull gold or silver. The one-piece pettiest and cachecorset has apparently come to stay, and Is marvelously embroidered and Denounced and berlbboned. "Complct" Is the French term for this garment, and It Is found in silk and gauze In place of the formerly Indispensable dress foundation or slip. In fine embroidery with elaborate handwork! and Valenciennes Insertion it is a dream of beauty. Brown bids fair to be worn tills spring, judging from the number of shades of this color on exhibition. Old apricot they are called, though they tnore closely resemble copin?r from the pale tint of highly polished metal. A smart, practical, everyday hat would be a toque of the soft braid or horse hair beut into soft folds, the trimming a little brown velvet caught with a large gold buckle. , l)nujyblcri um lloxtesise.i. If girls are trained from childhood in the art of entertaining guests, they will naturally fall into the habit of considering home parties and gayetles a part of the daily life, aud, what is perhaps not so well understood, be all the more popular for the reason that they are good hostesses. To further this, perplexel mothers have to make some sa-Tiflcc; they have to give young Ioople the privilege of inviting friends of thedr own age and assist in relecting and preparing suitable amusements whereby evenings may be passed more pleasantly at home than elsewhere.

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Tisree Tils Windjammers Reach New York Teher After Look Trip. Three large sailing ships came Into ;ort Sunday a short time ago an unjual number for one day, and an old sailor on the Iiattery said it reminded tiu of old times, according to the New i'ork Times. The first to drop anchor svas the three-masted ship Avon. She ias been carrying coolies frooi Calcutta u Surinam, Dutch Guinea. Following äer came the British ship Lucretla, ninety-two days out from Algoa Bay. stern of her was the J. D. Everett. from I'ucnos Ayrcs. The Avon, Capt. Arthur Fox. tied up it Beard's stores, Brooklyn, having docked In the morning. Her crenv was ;lad to get in, for the ship has been through a trying experience since she left Calcutta Oct. 23. Her cargo on the trip to Surinam was 590 coolies, ;ndenturcd to the Dutch government for 5ve years. Eight died on the trip. While in the Bay of Bengal the Avon ran Into one of the worst cyclones that Capt. Fox in his years of going up and down the world has ever experiencecL For two days the coolies men, women ind children were kept under hatches. They were almost completely shut off from the ther part of the ship and In the darkness of the hold they thought that death was coming. A rapid falling of the barometer and heavy gales marked the beginning of the cyclone, and wheu the storm came the vessel was hove to on the starboard tack under 'three lower topsails. At 4 o'clock the next corning there was a terrific gale, sending the water flying high over the bow, and as the ship lay to before the wind great quantities of water came over the leeward quarter. A lifeboat and 'many of the ship's sails were carried away In the gale. The Everett made the trip to Buenos Ayres from Boston, taking there 1.S00,000 feet of Canadian pine. AMIR'S UN AMIABLE WIFE. She IIa Three Murders Charged Aicalnut Her 111 Temper. Though subject to Great Britain In all Its foreign relations, Afghanistan Is independent in its internal affairs and the Amir is an absolute monarch. The country covers an area about equal to that of the New England States plus New York. Its population Is estimated at nearly 5,000,000. The present Amir was born in 1S72 and succeeded to the throne in October, 1L01. The Amir supports a considerable hareoa. It. is not known how many concubines he has, but there are four regularly recognized wives, the chief of whom, known as the queen wife, enjoys an allowance of $373,000 a year. The allowances of the other wives are fCOO.000, $150,000 and $75,000, according to seniority. There is also a queen mother in this complex family, and It Is well known that the young monarch has a monkey and parrot time of it In maintaining domestic discipline. The queen wife, who was formerly a slave girl and whose beauty Infatuated Habib Jllah while he was yet a prince, U a termagant of the fiercest description. She Is madly Jealous, obviously with ?ause enough, and has not viewed the accession of other wives with any degree of equanimity, but she cannot help herself, because the Amir maintains, and the law justifies him, that his rank entitles him to at least four wives. So the queen wife takes It out on her attendants. She chastises them freely and frequently, and thus far has killed three of them with her own hand. Abominable as this may seem in the eyes of western civilization, the worst of it Is, so far as the Amir Is concerned, that the queen mother, the queen wife and all the other wives are forever Interfering In politics. Their jealousies and conflicting Intrigues keep the court in turmoil, and. tenure of office Is precarious, for Habib Ullah Is not celebrated for firmness. He Is good-natured and prone to avoid trouble by yielding to It. ) She Forgot Ilr 5ame, v "Never, never shall I venture Into that shop and face that clerk again," taid a December bride as, in the company, cf a woman friend, she passed a fashionable stationer's downtown. "About three weeks before I was mrrcY he explained, "I stopped in there while downtown to order visitiug cards, which were to be engraved in my future name. At the appointed time I called to receive the cards and p-ty fcr them, but, completely forgetting the change of nomenclature, I asked for thgse of Miss Aline Smith. "Of course, no such entry could b fcund. as I had formerly had mine struck off at another houst The clerk searched through all his books, made all possible Inquiries, with many apologies for the oversight, which he was totally at a loss to account for. It occupied In all a good fifteen minutes'! time. Then 1 a flash the awful truth dawned oli me. I got as red as a bunch of beets, and suffered all the agonies of bridal stage fright In advance. But ther.; was nothing to do but own up. In a few words as possible I explained that the name to be looked for was Mrs. Morton Brown. Of course I got them Immediately, but the look on the face of that clerk I shall never forget." New York Press. i . Ills Number. Two men' stepped up to the desk at the Brown Palace Hotel yesterday afternoon and one of them registered. The other was acquainted with C. H. Churchill, the clerk. "Hello, Church,' he said. "I want you to meet my friend, Mr. Fish. He's out for a Chicago firm." The clerk shook hands with the man who had just registered. "Glad to know you. Mr. Fish." he said. "What do you sell?" "Scales." was the reply. "A good line for a Fish," said Mr. ChuVehill. The traveling man drew a littlo book from his pocket. "Let's see,' he said, as he turned the pages, "tour number is 0781." "My number?' said the clerk, perplexed. "Yes," said the drummer., "Jutt 0781 people have sprung that joke im imsince I took up the work e:ghUe:i months ago." "Aw, go weigh!' said Mr. Churchill. The traveling man wincet'.. but decided to remain at the hotel anyway. Denver Post Disease In t'arael. At the last session of the Paris Academy of Medicine l)r. VIdal called attention to vthe great danger of contagion from the use of oriental carpets. These carpets come from countries in which dysentery and other diseases prevail.

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DESERTED AVIF11 FOUSD HEAD. Two Doga Gnard Ilody of While Woman In JVesrro' Home. Deterted by her husband and abandoned by her friends, Mrs. Maude Knight. aged CÖ, white, was found dead on ths . floor in the home of "Limber" Willi wis. colored, in Marion. The janitor of' the house attempted V? enter the room when two dogs that remained faithful to the woman stopped him at the door rnd refused to let him enter. He asked the police to kill the dog, but the officers were held at bay by the maddened animals. At last a man who knew the dogs succeeded in getting into the room and there, upon the floor, lay the body the dogs were protecting. Near by was a tin cup half full of a liquid, the nature of which the coroner has been unable to determine. IEG mtOKEX, FEARS KXTLOSIOX. Defective Fane Sarn Life of Man Penned Honra Uexidr Dynamite. John Connors lay three hours pinioned under an upset hand e-ar, his leg broken, with a heavy charge of dynamite within a few feet of hiru. expecting momentarily that an explosion would blow him to pieces. His calls for help were not responded to by his fellow workers of a railroad construction gang at Cataract, because they also f caret! the, explosion. The fuse had been lighted and all were hurrying from the spot when the hand car upset with Connors. He says that when his calls bought, no rescuers he at times prayed iJi. the explosion to bring death and relief from the torture of snapense. Decs use of a defective fuse the dynamite was not exploded. WALL IMPEU KILLS WIVES. Polaon la Dlacovered After Man Lonea Three Ilelpmatea. It developed the other day that the wife of Zacariah Watson ot Posey county, who died recently, was killed by the wall paper in the parlor which she cleaned the day before she Mas taken sick. For the last three years Watson has lot a wife each spring and he remembered that every wife cleaned the wall paper shortly before being taken sick. The wall paper has been examined and found to cortaia poison. SCHOOL DOAUI) DACKS DOWN. Decide to Ilelnatate nioomlnstoa Teacher Who Ilejtjfned. The Bloomingion board of school trustees has dcided to reinstate the resigned school teachers, provided they ask either in person or in writing that their resignations be reconsidered. Most of the teachers will do this, but Prof. Howard Clark and Louis Dirks will not go back into the high school under any consideration. Tree Imperiled by Scale. Men who have made scientific investigation of the spread of the San Jose seal in Marion say that within two jears every tree in a large district of the city will be killed and have recommended taat the city take control of privately owned tree and shrubbery. The scale has been found over a third of the city andUhe shade t trees in some parts have been attacked. End Life Near Sweetheart. Charles Calkins shot and killed himself in the street in front of the house in which Lottie Adams, his sweetheart, was employed in Elkhart. Th only paper in his pockets was a clipping giving an account of the suicide of "Chick" Stahl, captain of the Boston American League baseball team, at West Baden.

Attorney- Victim of Aawattlt. Warren W. reorders, a wealthy attorney of Winamac,' .as found unconscious in a remote part of Logansport the other night, suffering from brain contusions. , He had apparently been assaulted, but y not robbed. He is unable to talk and cannot explain his injuries.

Worried to De;:th hy Charsre. J. JI. Kennedy, ex-seeretary-treasurer of the Irdiana Mine Workers, died la Terre Haute. Death was the result of a nervous lollapse following disclosures which led to.his removal on a charge of embezzling funds of the organization. Jump from IIih Treittle Kill. ! Jasper Davis, 10 years of asi while walking on a trestle of. the I'vansville and Terre. Haute railroad near Lvansville was run elown by a fast train. He jumped and falling sixty feet was instantly killed. PlckpocUeta Fleece Chicago Man. Thomas D. Scott of Chicago had his pockets picked while attending the convention of the Northern Indiana Teachers' Association in South Bend, the thief getting $47G in checks and cash. Fell Dead While Sowing Oafs. William Teimeyer, a farmer living six miles east of Drownstown, fell dead in the field while sowing oats. He was 4.1 years old and is survived by a widow and several children. Slinor State Items. Frank Harrison, aged 7-, fell from a window of a hotel at Evansville nad was killed. . . William Wohlgaaiuth. a wealthy widower, was frnd dead in bod at Wabash. He was . specially well when he retired. Heart disease is given as the. cause of death. . Mrs. Polly Baker of Indianapolis, whose extensive matrimonial experiences have been widely commented on, has just been' divorced from Lor eleventh husband. She has lost several of her mates by death and others have been taken from her by the courts. Judge McMahon in the Importe Cirruit Court granted a permanent injunction to prevent the city of Importe from paying money to the Laporte Water Supply Company. He held that the plant, which was built seven years ago, and which has been in litigation ever since, is the property of the city. Arthur Tamms, a student of the Marion high school, son of Rev. James Parsons of that city, has so successfully followed the formulas " discovered by the French scientist Le Due that he has produced from chemicals a iced that has grown into a thing fulfilling all the requirements of a plant test excepting that of reproduction. Parsons is a student of chemistry and botany and by carefully studying Mie experiments of Lc Due has duplicated his wtirk. An unidentified woman set fire to iIk? abandoned factory building of th Canton (J'i's.-; Co:r.p;in.v of Marion. This is lk? second attempt to burn the building. I'jxm application of lk Import" KIittric Company .Tnd.;e Kichter in the Iipr.n'o Circuit Corn appointed Edward J. Wn'uVil receiver for the Ku wards Klectrhr IIi'a:r.;".'.:t Co:-ip:ir.y of Laporte. wl.Wh is cat i.alizcd for $ir0,0(H T&e liabilities and assets are unknown,. One n".a:i was bio.vn to atoms and a y.iv.U storehouse of tin .Waa Powder Company at Arlua wa- completely wrecked by the explosion of 1MD iKHinds ot dynamite. The causo of the explosion i r.ot known, as nothing remains of the house in which it occurred. The name Of the' man killed is not known. Only a few fragments of his body have been found.

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