Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 47, Plymouth, Marshall County, 29 August 1907 — Page 3

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FENIMORE COOPER

A STORY OF THE REVOLUTION

CIIArTER XVII. (Continued.) There was a startling fierceness in the voice of the trooper that reached the heart, even amid the horrors of the cottage. The leader of the Skinners dropped his plunder, and, for a moment, he stooJ in nerveless dread ; then rushing to a window, he threw up the fash : at this point '.Lawton entered, saber in 'hand, ino the apartment. "Die, miscrear.tr cri?d the tro?pr, cleaving a marauler to the jaw; but the leader sprang into the lawn and escaped his vengeance. The shrieks of the females restored Lawton to his presence of mind. On,? more of the gang fell in with the dragoons, and met his death; but the remainder had taken the alarm in season. Occupied with Sarah, neither Miss Singleton nor the ladies of the house had discovered the entrance of the Skinners, though the flames were racing around them. The shrieks of Katy and the terrified consort of Caesar, together with the noise &ad uproar in the adjacent apartment, first roused Miss Feytoa and Isa-N bella to a sense of their danger. "Merciful Providence!" exclaimed the alarmed aunt; "there is a dreadful confusion in the house, and there will be bloodshed in consequence of the affair." Frances was left alone with her sister. A few minutes were passed in silence, when a loud crash iu the upper apartment! was succeeded by a Srigkt light that glared through the open door.- Sarah raised herself on her bed, and staring wildly around, pressed both her hands on her forehead, endeavoring to recollect herself. "This, then, is heaven and you are one of its bright spirits. Oh ! how glorious is its radiance! I had thought the happiness I have lately experienced was too much for earth. But we shall meet again yes--yes we shall meet agiin." "Sarah ! Sarah !" cried Frances, in terror ; "my sister my only sister Oh ! do not smile so horridly; know me or you will break my heart." "Hush," said Sarah, raising her hand for silence; "you may disturb his rest DIE I CRIED THE TOOOrER. surely, he will follow me to the grave. Think you there can be two wives in the grave? No no no cue one one only one." Frances dropped her head into the lap of her sister, and wept in agony." "D you shed tears, sweet angel?" continued Sarah, soothingly; "then heaven is not exempt from grief. But where is Henry? Ho was executed, and he must be here too; perhaps they will come together. Oh, how joyful will be the meeting! Frances sprang on her feet and paced the apartment. The eye of Sarah followed her in childish admiration of her beauty. "Yoa look like my sister; but all goo;! and lovely spirits are alike. Tell me, were jou ever married? Did you ever let a stranger steal your affections from father, and brother, and sister? If not, poor wretch, I pity you, although you may te in heaven." "Sarah peace, peace I implore you to be silent," shrieked Frances, rushing to her bed, "or you will kill me at your feet." Another dreadful crash shook the building to its center. It was the falling of the roof, and the flames threw their light abroad, so as to make objects visible around the cottage, through the windows of ths room. Frances flew to one of them, and saw the confused group that was collected on the lawn. Among them were her aunt and Isabella, pointing with distraction to the fiery edifice, and apparently urging the dragoons to enter it. For the first time she comprehended their danger; and uttering a wild shriek, she flew through the passage, without consideration or object. A dense and suffocating column of smoke opposed her progress. She paused to breathe, wh.n a man caught her in his arms and bote her, in a state of insensibility, through the falling embers. The instant that Fences recover her recollection, she per reived that she owed her life to Lawton, and throwing horstlf on her kneea. she cried : "Sarah ! Sarah ! Sarah ! Save my sister, and may the blessing of God await yon!" By this time the flames had dispersed much of the suffocating vapor, so that the trooper was able to find the door, and in its very entrance he was met by a man supporting the insensible Sarah. There was but barely time to reach the lawn again before the fire brok- through the? windows and wrapped the whole building in a sheet of flame. "God be praised !" ejaculated the preserver of Sarah; "it would hare been a dreadful death to die.' The trooper turned from gazing at the edifice to the speaker, arid to his astoabhfcent, instead of one of his own men, he beheld the peddler. "Ha! the spy," he exclaimed; "by heaven?, you cross me like r. spectre." "Captain Lawton," said Birch, leaning in momentary exhaust .on against the fence. "I am again in your power, for I an neither flee nor resist." The cause of America la dear to me ts life," said the trooper; "but she cannot require her children to forget gratitude tnd honor. Fly, unhappy man, while yet foa are unseen, or it will exceed my power to save you." "May God prosper you, and make you victorious over your enemies," said Bjtrh. grasping the hand of the dragoon with an iron strength that his meager figure did not indicate." , "Hold !" said Lawton ; "but a word are you what yoa seem? can you are you ' "A royal spy," Interrupted Birch, averting his face, and endeavoring to release his hand. "Then go, miserable wretch, said the trooper, relinquishing his grasp; "either avarice or delusion has led a noble heart astray !" The bright light from the flames reached a great distance around the ruins, but the words were hardly past the lips of Lawton before the gaunt form of the peddler had glided over the visible space and plunged into the darkness beyond. CHAPTER XVIII. The walls of the cottage were all that ras left of the building ; and these, blackened ty smoke, and stripped of their

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piazzas and ornaments, were but dreary memorials of the content and security that had so lately reigned within. The roof had tumbled into the cellars. The early flight of the Skinners left the dragoons at liberty to exert themselves in saving much of the furniture. The captain, after placing Sarah on a sofa that had been hurled from the building by two of his men. retired, that the ladies might succeed him in his care. Miss Peyton and her niece flew to receive Sarah from the trooper: but the vacant eye and flushed cheek restored them instantly to their recollection. "Sarah, my child, my beloved niece," said the former, folding the unconscious bride in her arms, "you are saved, and may the blessing of God await him who has been the instrument." "See," said Sarah, gently pushing her aunt aside, and pointing to the glimmering ruins, "the windows are illuminated in honor of my arrival. They always receive a bride thus he told me they would do not less; listen, and you will

J hear the bells." "The shock has destroyed her mind," cried Miss Peyton ; "my child, my beauteous Sarah is a maniac !" "Come." said the surgeon, "the night air can do no service to George, or these ladies, and it is incumVmt on us to remove them where they can find surgical attendance and refreshment. Here is nothing but smoking ruins and the miasma of the swamps." " t Captain Lawton made his dispositions for the march. . Miss Peyton, her two nieces and Isabella were placed in the chariot, while the cart of Mrs. Flanagan, amply supplied with blankets and a bed. was honored with the person 'of Captain Singleton. Dr. Sitgreaves took charge of th chaise and Mr. Wharton. What became of th? rest of the family d-ing that eventful night is unknown, for Caesar aion?, of the domestics was to be found, if we except the housekeeper. Compared with the simple elegance and substantial comfort of the Locusts, the "Hotel Flanagan" presented but a dreary spectacle. In the place of carpeted floors and curtained windows, were the yawning cracks of a rudely constructed dwelling, and boards and paper were ingeniously applied to supply the place of the green glass in more than half the lights. The tare of Lawton had anticipated every improvement that their situation would allow, and blazing fires were made before the party arrived. The dragoons who had been charged with this duty had conveyed a few necessary articles of furniture. The mini of Sarah had continued to wander during the ride, and, with the ingenuity of the insane, she accommodated every .circumstance to the feelings that were uppermost in her own bosom. , "It Is impossible to minister to a mind that has sustained such a blow," said Lawton to Isabella Singleton ; "time and God's mercy can alone cure it ; but-$me-thing core may be dono toward the bodily comfort of all. You are a soldier's daughter, and used to scenes like this; help me to exclude seme of the cold air from these windows." Miss Singleton acceded to his request, and while Lawton was endeavoring, from without, to remedy the defect of broken panes, Isabella was arranging a substitute for a curtain within. "I hear the cart," said the trooper, in reply to one of her interrogatories. "Betty is tender hearted in the main believe me, poor George will not only be safe, but comfortable." "God bless her for her care, and bless you all," said Isabella fervently. "Dr. Sitgreaves has gone down -the road to meet him, I know what is that glitter-, ing in the moon?" Directly opposite the window where they stood were the outbuildings of the farm, and the quick eye of Lawton caught sight at a glance the object to which she alluded. " Tis the glare of firearms," said the trooper, springing from the window toward his charger. His movement was quick as thought, but a flash of fire was followed by the whistling of a bullet before he had proceeded a step. A loud shriek burst from the dwelling and the captain sprang into his saddle; the whole was the business of but a moment. "Mount mount and follow!? shouted the trooper, and before his asto'Lcied men could understand the cause of alarm, Roanoke had carried him in safety over the fence which lay between him and his foe. The chase was for life or death, but the distance to the rocks was again too shorty and the disappointed trooper saw his intended victim vanish iaUheir clefts, where he could not follow. "By the life of Washington V muttered Lawton, as he sheathed his saber, "I would have, made two halves of him had he not been so nimble on the foot but a time will come!" So saying he returned to his quarters, with the indifference of a man who knew his life was at any moment to be offered a sacrifice to his country. An extraordinary tumult in the house induced him fo quicken his speed; on ariving at the door, the panic stricken Katy informed him that the bullet, aimed at h!-s own life, had taken effect in the bosom of Miss Singleton. CHAPTER XIZZ. The brief arrangements of the dragoons bid prepared two apartments for the reception "of the ladies, the one being intended as a sleeping room and situated within the other. Into the latter Isabella was immediately conveyed, at her own re5" 4 A ROYAL SPT, I.VTET.BCTTED BIRCH. quest, and placed on a rude bed by the side of the unconscious Sarah. When Miss Peyton and Frances flew to her assistance they found her with a- smile on her pallid lip, and a composure in her countenance- that induced them to think her uninjured. "God be, praised!" exclaimed the trembling aunt; "the report of firearms, and your fall, had led me into an error. Surely, surely, there was enough 'of horror before ; but this has been spared us." Isabella pressed her hand upon her bosom, still smiling, but with a ghastliness that curdled the blood of Frances. "Hear me. Captain Lawton," said Isabella; "from early womanhood to the present hour have I been an inmate of camps and garrisons. I have lied to cheer the leisure of an aged father, and think you I would change those days of danger and privation for any ease? No!

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I have the consolation of knowing In my dying nomcnts, that what woman could Jo in si:ch a cause I have done." "Who could prove a recreant and witness such a spirit ! Hundreds of warriors have witnessed in th?:r blood, but never a firmer soul araon; them all." "'Tis the soul only," said Isabella; "my sox and strength have denied me the dearest of privileges. But to you. Captain Lawton, nature has been more bountiful ; you have an arm and a heart to devote to the cause; and I know they fare an arm and a heart that will prove true to the last. And George and " she paused, her lip quivered, and her eye sank to the floor. "And Dunwoodie !" added the troorser J "would you speak of Dunwoodie?" "Name him not," said Isabella, sinking tack and concealing her face ; "leave me, Lawton prepare poor George for this unexpected blow." The trooper continued for a little while gazing, in melancholy interest, at the convulsive shudderings of her frame, and withdrew to meet his comrade. The interview between Singleton and his sister was painful, and, for a moment, Isabella yielded to a burst of tenderness; but, as if aware that her hours were numbered, she was the first to rouse herself to exertion. At her earnest request, thi room was left to herself, the captain and Frances. The repeated applications of the surgeon to be permitted to use professional aid were steadily rejected. "Raise me," said the dying young woman, "and let me look on a face that I love once more." Frances silently complied, and Isabella turned her eyes in sisterly affection upon George. "It matters but little, my brother; a few Lours must close the scene." (To be continued.)

H0T7 ENGLISH LIVE IN INDIA. Club at Every Station Servant and Prices at he Market. The Indian club is a unique institution ; there is nothing like it anywhere else. In a small station it is the one rendezvous for all the lncn and women in the neighborhood. Punctually at T o'clock, when the sun begins to lose its power, nearly every one moves clubward. The glaring white road, until then occupied only by an occasional bullock bandy with Its native driver, suddenly becomes the scene of the utmost animation, dogcarts, carriages, ponies and bicycles all following one another in the same direction. Play and chat are at once the order of the day. While some indulge in croquet or Badminton, others till the tennis courts, which are provided with a number of little brown faced boys who run about and pick up the ball. When the light fails, two groups are formed la the compound; the women sit and gossip over lhelr Iced drinks, while the men cluster around the peg table. Finally, the club building itself is entered, .nd cards and billiards are enjoyed nudcr the punkah until It Is tinie to go home and dress for dinner. Nothing is more striking on one's first visit to the club, says a writer in the Lady, than the extraordinary high spirits one meets on every side. Some say they are forced, ethers that they are due to the lightness and brightness of the air, but certainly such joies ami laughter are not heard elsewhere. Tragedy may lie underneath, but on the surface all is merriment. Almost every one is young, and all are ready for a little companionship and amusement after the long net hours spent In office or bungalow. It is this friendly Intercourse with one another wblou Anglo-Indians miss so much when they first return to England and have to put up with the aloofness of county society or the limitations of suburbia. Thea India Is the ideal country foi visiting. Each visitor arrives at n friend's bungalow with his own servants and ponies. Native servants are responsible for their own meals of cur ry and rice and curl themeselves up in a rug to sleep in, any available corner, so are no trouble to another person's household. The butler, who knows ycur likes and dislikes better than you do yourself, makes, it his special duty to see that no home comforts are lacking, and is always particularly generous with a strange 'master's" foods. If there are many visitors, the array of smart beturbanccl butlers in tha dlnlngroom Is most imposing, and the waiting is done as If by magic. There are certain advantages in living !n a country where houses are cheap, servants are cheaper and meat c?n be bought for Od a pound. By a curious native arrangement there Is no fixed standard of prices for articles' of food sold In the bazar. The mem-sahib pays much or little, according to the salary earned ,by her husband, which is always known to a pnny. Peruvians as Engineers. Next to the Romans, the ancient Peruvians were perhaps the most efficient civil engineers. Their roads were marvelous, and one, the highway from Quito Into the Chilean dominion, was die of the most remarkable roads the world has ever known. It was twenty feet wide and two thousand miles In length, passing over snow-capped mountains, through canyons cut for miles through the solid rock, and across turbulent mountain streams and rivers. The feat of constructing this road might well try the skill of our best modern engineers. Strenuous Itemed j-. "And you have to get o new rain barrel every season?" asked the windmill salesman In surprise. "Every spring," drawled F.irmct Ilanlapple. "But what becomes of the old one?" "Oh, I wear out all the staves pn the boys when they began to laze around with the spring fever." Transfer. "This idea of prohibiting corporations from contributing to campaign funds has changed things a great deal." "Yes," answered Mr. Dustin Stax; "It takes a great deal of wear and tear off a man's check book and puts a cor responding amount of worry on his mind." Washington Star. Properly Defined. Little Willie Say, pa, what is a pessimist? Pa A pessimist, my son, is a man who would rather read the death no tices in a newspaper than the Jokes. Professor Gaetano Lanza, bead of the mechanical department of the Boston School of Technology, has been knight ed by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. Professor Lanza was born in Boston in 1S48, was appointed instructor in the Institute of Technology 'n 1872, became professor of the engineerlug department In 18S3 and Is widely known as an author. Taylor Do yoa think that those cigars of Smith's cost him so much money? Caylor Not unless he was fined for smoking them in public. It does not pay to have your mind bo flnuly made up that nothing caa

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fbj fc sr.tv .tv -T ä H -1 tS' k Keep Abreast of the Times. The wis- mother should recognize that unless she keeps abreast with the times by reading and having her outside interests there will come a time when her children will inevitably neglect her. They are learning all the time in school, in the library, In dozens of 'ways of which she is hardly conscious. She must remenjber thnt if she wishes to be a real mother to the:n, and hold their respect and -onfidence. she must keep up her knowledge along these lines, says the Philadelphia Press. Unless she does this, though her children may and doubtless 'will love her, they will feel, in their hearts, that they are her superior, and will pity her a little as a "back number." (This is no doubt true of some children, but not of all. It may be true during the arrogant period of youth, but not after sense dominates.). Most mothers work too hard with their hands, and make that kind of labor the most important. Mothers who have grown prematurely old through overwork are those who submit to a constant, unrelieved strain on one set of muscles, and because of such concentration uion commonplaces become uninteresting to their children and to everyone else. The well-balanced woman refuses to be a drud.sre, though at the same- time she recognizes the necessity of order and system. She never lets work become a fetish, and she always has time or takes time to give ear to her children's confluences. Pretty Frock of leinen. Lavender linen was ued for the gown pictured. the trimming of vhh?h consisted of pitched Land?, buttons and very heavy white lace. The open kimono sleeves were made of the heavy lace, banded with linen, a little of the laee also being used on the yoke and sleeves, which were of wlklte batiste, tucked iu squares. The skirt was trimmed with three bias folds, cut la little tabs up the front. To the Ilargrain Hunter. Never run into debt to buy anything, no matter how advantageous the opportunity may seem to be. Familiarize yourself with prices, so that you know about what an article should cost. Buy only at reliable shops. If the article Is not good of Its kind .It is not a bargain at any price. January, July and August are the months when real bargains may usually be found. Be chary j of buying trlfies that are merely passing fashions. If such things are 'reduced it generally means that their day Is over. Don't buy anything unless you know what you are going to do with It. In certain things there Is practically no change In fashion. Materials for underclothes, trimmings for the came, materials for children's frocks and household linens can often be bought advantageously, and put away uutil needed. Mnst Ohejr Fashion.' Fashion is n very stern mistress and every one must follow her dictates. No better evidence, of submission was ever given than in regard to the change of fashion in the waist. Last year, until the weather wa3 freezing cold, girls. and women too, for that matter, wore short sleeved, diaphanous waists that aroused the criticism of those who did net consider It quite proper to wear so much open work. Now the same girls, on the hottest days go bundled up in a negligee-looking linen coat, sleeves long to the wrists and gloves completing the wrapied-up effect. Save Witty Clipping. A neat little booklet for an invalid can be made by saving witty clippings and pasting in a small scrap book urten wuen one is not able to read lengthy articles something bright and witty will help brighten the day. It should only be loaned and passed along where it would probably be the most appreciated. lattie pieces can be pasted on cards, and are much more easily held by persons lying In bed. Bright pictures, comic and otherwise, are nice for children, and nfTord amusement to the Impatient little sufferers who must remain in bed. HoTf to Arcld Dust. There Is not nearly so much sweeping done as there used to b, as it Is so well known that In dust there Is likely to be many germs of diseases, especially If there Is any one in the family who has a cough, however slight It may be. But there are many housewives who have regular sweeping days, taking certain precautions. A good plan Is to wet a newspaper and then tear it up in pieces, scattering them over the floor. Push them along in front of the broom and they will absorb most of the dust. Deads 3Iodlh If there Is any thought of beads going out of style, present conditions do not indicate It. There are new styles. large beads in irregular shapes, small beads of pretty patterns, good ones, precious gems, and some decidedly cheap, though, 6trange to say, very pretty. Women are wearing all kinds and to many women they are very becoming. Amber is a favorite color at

'S 'r present, since the color looks beautiful worn with the new brown tints. Genu ine amber beads are expensive, but there are some very clever imitations in the market which will satisfy most women. Many cheap beads can be made more elegant in appearance by stringing them on platinum wire and using gold clasps. It is the che'ap cot ton string and brass clasp which gives more evidence of cheapness thanythe beads. ABY Ulfe The proper way of testing the warmth of baby's milk is to squeeze tiie nipple fo that a few dropi fall on the back of the hand. One of the most filthy and unhygienic things that can be done, and one seen frequently, is for a mother or other person to moisten a handkerchief or napkin with the tongue and thenwipe baby's mouth. There are no words too strong to express the nastlness of this, and the consequent risk to a young baby's, health Is great. The Wnnh Chlntx. A capital method of washing chintzes or tbe favorite printed linens which are so frequently used In upholstery nowadays. Is to frst lay the loose covers to soak In cold salt and water so as to set the colors. When these, have soaked twelve hours they should be removed, the moisture wrung out and the covers placed In the copper. In which bran has been boiled In water for about five minutes. They should be well rubbed and squeezed In the bran water until all the dirt has been eliminated, when they should be taken out and plunged again Into salt water and left for some little time. If this is done carefully not -a vestige of the color will wash out or even fade, ami the covers will emerge from their bran bath as fresh and clean as wheu new. The "White Dress. The white gown is always an economy if one is in need of a dressy summer gown and must study the cost. White, for one thing, can not fade, and it stands cleaning indefinitely if the material Is selected with anything like judgment. It, too, can be varied with accessories of different kinds and colors, 83 that its identity can hardly be distinguished from time to time. The tUin cottons and linens embroidered and trimmed with lavish designs of lace are far from being among the economics if only the first cost is considered, but such a gown may he changed from season to season, and hang on as long as a thread of it lasts. Siek Room Dont'a. Don't appear anxious, however great your anxiety. Don't be unmindful of yourself If you are in the responsible position of nurse. To do faithful work yo;i must have proper food and stated hours of rest. Don't forget that kindness and tenderness are needful to successful nursing. Human nature longs to be soothed and comforted on all occasions when It Is out of tune. Don't permit currents of air to blow upon the patient. An open fireplace Is an excellent means of ventilation. The current may be tested by burning a piece of paper In front. Good Groom in sr. "Just what may be meant by good grooming you will Imagine when I tell you that it includes the brightening of the hair and the dressing thereof, the massage of the face, the taking out of wrinkles here and there vind the re duction of the body," says a beauty specialist. "Afterward there comes such fancy points as the whitening of the skin, the natural brightening of the eyes, the reddening of the lips, the shaping of the nore." Ta Clean Straw Hat. Buy 2 cents' worth of oxalic acid; this Is enough to do three or four hats. Dissolve a little In hot water, and scrub the hat uutll It is clean; rinse under the tap, and place into the shape yoa require It to be and put out in the sun, or in front of the fire. Then it will look as though it is a new hat. Be careful the oxalic acid bottle is labeled poison and locked away from children. Man's Colors. There's black. And then white. And red for home gowns. For evening be admires white after black. Pastel tints are his choice if there must be color. , And why his rage for black? It cannot be that it matches his heart! A smart short kimono coat was embroidered across the front and back aud on the sleeves with wistaria. Coats bound with braid, though styl ish. have become a little common, the best makers preferring to finish the edges with several rows of stitching Blonde lace, the favorite lace of the second empire, Is much in evidence Just now. Can It be the precursor of the crinolines, without which no woman of tbe same period considered herself well dressed? Ia parasols lmnd-palnted and hand embroidered effects are popular. Stripes are also much used, sometimes the entire parasol being striped and some times only a small section near the top. Often the flounce of the petticoat is striped to match the parasol. Tiny butterfly bows are not novel, but they are pretty when made of fine linen, finished with a crochet border. One particularly smart tie was double,

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'jr 'sf ''sT'tr -f ? 3 with the lower wings edged with Ger man valenciennes and the upper with tiny crocheted circles and stars. White, cream, pale yellow or beige straw, very frequently bound with an edging of black straw about an Inch wide, forms the majority of the mid summer models. Often these hats are quite destitute of trimming at the back and sides, having no other adornment than a huge bunch of aigrettes or os trich plumes in front. A white cambric frock is trimmed with broderie anglaise, worked, how ever, not In white, but in several pale colors. The gown is mounted over palest straw or color and a big leaiiorn hat is trimmed with quantities of great daisies all In pale shades, strawcolored gloves are worn, also shoes and stockings, the wearer being a French woman. Cultivates Mind mid Dody. Never was the sex making such effott to learn what real . womanhood means as la this era, says Ella Wheeler Wilcox in the Philadelphia Bulletin. Physical science and metaphysics axe working together to create a -new (Tody for woman; or rather to give her an understanding of what a glorious body is hers by right, and how to keep It whole while the spirit needs It as a temple. The ailing and weak women are decreasing rapidly. Read any novel of half a century ago and the heroine Is Invariably delicate, given to side aches and swoons. Novels reflect th manners and customs of the age in which they are written. The weak woman Is not the type today in fiction or in society. However many my friends may know in her particular circle, the sickly woman is becoming ashamed of her weakness, and she Is on the wane. For the new woman, the woman who is. and is to be, will b-3 a three-fold creature, vigorous of body, vital of mind, radkint of spirit, and she is here to-day. To-morrow she will rule the world. I,ndle' Hiding Coat. The coat shown in the sketch is Jnst tbe style to complement a skirt of the same material. This style of habit is generally made of fine black kersey, though it also looks well of tan or gray covert. It is double-breasted, fitting very snug, and comes about 14 Inches below the hips. Two rows of stitching down each seam give It a fine tailored finish. The collar Is of velvet. Two rows of buttons are placed down the front. ' Missouri Girl Won. Tbe prize of $1,000 offered by the American Humane Education Society for tbe best dramatization of "Blaqlc Beauty" was awarded to Miss Favla Bosser of Butler, Mo. The play his leen sold for $1.200 to a leading theatrical firm In Boston, which Is preparing for its eirly presentation on a grand scale. Keep the House Closed. The only method of keeping the house cool is by vigorously excluding all the hot air from the street. Doors, windows and shutters should all be kept closed during the daytime. Just after sunset, however, the whole house should be opened, and the cooling breeze of night allowed to sweep through during the entire night. Silence Is Golden. Boston club women 'have taken np the fad of the 'silence room," and In it they find miracles worked through autosuggestion. Silence is so scarce at some times that it is really golden and much to le destred above everything else, as those who live next to the humming, whistling type of man know very well. For tbe Stout Woman, The stout woman should never wear a stripe or a check, but she, for some reason or other, seems to like to wear them. ria!n white, laoe-covehxl. is one of the most becoming combinations for the woman with a broad back, If she does. not want to wear black. When Lore Grown Cold. About the time a man neglects to kls? Iiis bride good-by on going to his work he also forgets to fill the woodbox. The blows that crush ideals come as thick as hailstones after they once get started. Atchison Globe. erroni Women. There are nervous women; there are hyper-nervous women. But women so nervous that the continual rustle of a silk skirt makes them nervous no, there are no women so nervous as that. Fliegende Blactter. Fruit Diet Cares Pimples. Drink hot apple tea as often as you want a drink. Eat pared and cored apples'all day long. They are good for the stomach, while their beautifying qualities are great. An Excellent Starch. Dissolve one tablespoouful of corn starch in an equal amount of cold water; pour over it a quart of boiling water; stir until transparent. The clothes iron smooth and stiff. rreserrlna; a Droom. To preserve brooms dip them for a minute or two in a pall of boiling suds once a week, which makes them tough and pliable. A carpet wears much longer If gwept with such a broom.

The crown prince of Korea, who succeeds to the throne because of the forcible abdication of his father, bears the name Yi Syek. He Is a son of the laty; Empress Min, who was assassinated , in 1S33, and was born on ths 25th of March, 1S74. Little is known of Yi Syek except that he was given what little military training the country affords, and that he is not a man of empesoi; of koeea. gtrong . opinions. This would seem to be obvious when the Japanese are willing to place him on the throne. It is alleged that YI Syek never recovered from the shock he received at the time his mother was slain, because of the brutality attending her murder. She was first cut down with swords, then taken to a courtyard, wrapped in silk and borne to a grove, where, after wocd was piled cn the body and kerosene poured over the mass, it was set on fire. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, whose company have been instrumental In forming a huge iron and steel combi nation . in Great Britain, is a noted civil, mechanical and electrical engineer. He Is an American, having been born at Saugerville, Me., in 1840, and he is of Puritan descent. Sir Hiram is the .Inventor of the Maxim gun and of SIB hibam maxim. an automatic system of firearms, and also of cordite, a smokeless powder, and he has devoted much time and Invention to aerial navigation. In 1001 he was knighted by the late Queen Victoria, and he also is a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. Sir Hiram is a member of various technical and scientific societies, and he has a handsome residence at Thurlow Tark, Norwood, London. He has lived in England since 1SS1. -: :- Congressional investigation of the American Bible Society, which controls the price of Bibles in the United States, has been urged by religions papers 7 - . '':'",,' throughout the east 7 ,4 ', and a strong effort h,-. ?5? is being made to shed light on the business dealings of the corporation. The American Bible Society was without a president for some years wheu the vend. c. ciixmax. era5ie Daniel Coit Gilman, formerly head of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, took the place. There are twenty-one vice presidents, many of whom have never 'attended a meeting. The resources of the American Bible Society are said to be at least $200,000, but the annual reIort sets the assets at $712,412.73. That it Is only a short time before it will be possible to have dinner In America one day and breakfast in Europe the next morning is a statement credited to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the Inventor of the telephone. Dr. Bell has great faith In the future progress of aerial navigation and says that he expects an airship fx V to De Dum tnat win alex. o. uluu. make 173 to 200 miles an hour. " He also believes that one of the next steps in the progres-4'of navigating the air will be the construction of aerial battleships. - The Largest Playifround. Jersey City has authorized a landscape artist to transform a level plot of sixtynine acres west of the city and bordering on the I lackensack river intola mammoth playfield for the benefit of the boys and girls of the city. This will be the largest playground in the world, as it is sir times as large as the Stadium at Athens and half as large again as the Prospect Tark (Brooklyn) playground. The Jersey City field will be surrounded by a drive 100 feet wide for the use of horsemen and automobiles. Near the river will be an immense swimming pool and recreation piers. Baseball fields, golf links, tennis courts and cricket grounds will be laid out on the central portion, and there will be a great fieldhouse where all players may make ready for the games. In the winter time there will be an immense skating rink free to all. Higher Education for Officers. On the statement that "An officer of the United States army should be an allround educated gentleman; as it is now his entire training, both preparatory at the academy and post-graduate, is almost purely technical," the board ot visitors to tbe Military Academy at West Toint has founded its recommendation for a general revision .of the scheme of academic Instruction. The board says that it is now imperative that the cadet be graduated with an education approaching in general culture that acquired in tbe best of American colleges. The report says that haring is now entirely a thing of the past, and the remarkable statement is made that thore has been no death among the cadets from disease of any kind for more than twelve years. Erie Canal's Bad Dnak. The arches of masonry supporting the bed of the Erie canal where it passes over Onondaga creek in the city of Syracuse gave way, wreckin? a large flouring mill and causing the destruction of several canal boats, which were drawn into the vortex. The water was drawn off of the five-mile level in which the break occurred, thus putting an entire stop to canal traffic. It will be several daj-s before the break can be repaired. Fnmons Hotel Darned. The Long Beach Hotel, near New York City, for more than a quarter of a century famous as one of the largest hostelrics on the Atlantic coast, was totally destroyed by fire. There were over 1,000 guests and employes in the building, all of whom escaped. The loss is said to be $r00,000. very little of which was covered by insurance. - When tha chimneys of the Royal Mint at Berlin were cleaned, about $1,000 worth of gold was taken from the soot. All the same stripe Convlctj.

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FINDS Sr,0)() IX GOLD. Son DIftc-ovrrs Money Secreted Is) Shop Where Father Worke. Jacob Moore, a young farmer living; one mile from Hagerstown, found $.",000 in gold in the cabinet .hop. formerly ushI by his farther, Benjamin Moore, who died some months ago. It was believed by the family that money was"liidden or disused of by their father without their knowledge, and that he had died without imparting his secret to anyone. He was an expert worker in wood and when, young Jacob Moore was looking around the old shep, he saw a carefully mortised joint in the ceiling timber where there was no occasion for it. An investigatia revealed a perfectly fitting "block of wood dovetailed into the ceiling frame, and so adjusted that it could be removed with care amPreplaced intact. When tbe piece of wood was removed the young man discovered a pile of closely wrapped coins. Upon examination he formd that there was $.",000 in twenty-dollar gold pieces, all carefully counted and arranged ia thousand-dollar cylinders. With the extreme care and nice workmanship always used by hi father youngx Moore found that the piece had bvfn hollowed out of & solid beam without marring or defacing any of the surface except the small opening, which had been so perfectly closed with the dovetailed block. . COIPLE Ml'ItDERED BY ROBBERS Indiana Farmer and Wife Are Foaad ' Slain In Their Home. George W. Hudson and wife, who sold their farm near Noblesville a few days ago, were found murdered the other morning, on the return of a daughter who had been absent several days. The murder was committed some time the previous night. The house- had been ransacked from top to bottom, and if the money received from the sale of the farm was ia the house it wis probably secured by tha murderers. Wlien found the body of Mrs. Hudson was lying in bed. and it is sapposed she was shot while asleep. Mr. Hudson, was found near the same room, and there are evidences of a struggle, the furniture being displaced and a chair broken. An old revolver which did not belong to the family was found in tha house with four exploded cartridges in it, but there is no evidence that more thao two shots were fired in the house. REFOR3IEK IS KNOCKED OUT. Hurled Through Tlate Glass Window . by an Irate Saloonkeeper.' Dr. M. A. Mason, a prominent Fort Wayne dentist and a leader in the Law and Order League, has learned that the way of the reformer is hard. He was watching a Kalon for evidence of violation of the Sunday closing law when he was attacked by the proprietor and knocked through a plate-glass window. The doctor was badly cut and braised, but he declared he would be e-a hand again the next Sunday in an effort to catch violators of the law. PASSES SPURIOUS PENNIES. . l A Well-)rexsed Stranger Swindle Many Indiana Blerehants. Counterfeit pennies are being circulated by the hundred over northern Indiana. A well dressed man entered Claypooh visited several stores and restaurants, and made purchases always tendering pennies ia payment. A subsequent examination ol the coins brought out an indignatioa meeting of the citizen, and Sheriff Edward Haas was asked to arrest the maa but he had fled. LIFE TERMER FLEES PRISON. Trusty, Sentenced to Mlehbraa City for 31 order, Abandons Team. Nelson Fritz, a life-termer who wan sent up from Bedford iri 1001 on tbe charge of-murder. ran away from the State prison In Michigan City. He was a trusty and had been pent a mile away with a team, which he abandoned. Fritx was convicted in connection with his son, George Friti. but Gov. Ilanly paroled the latter after he had served two years. Find Dead Man's Purse In Mine. A searching party found among the debris a i-ocketbook containing if rit J nl some valuable papers belongirg to F. T. Delashmutt, receiver of the Shelbura mine, who was killed by cn explosion? in the mine Aug. 5, with a miner named Anderson. Neuralgia Tablets Nearly Fatal. Mrs. E. G. Reed of Hoard county had a close call for life from taking: two neuralgia , tablets to allay the paia of toothache. She was seized with heart failure -and a physici-in'a services were required to restore her. Plans Funeral Drops Dead. Just after making all arrangements for funeral, even giving the names of pallbearers and singers. Captain Elijah Blackford, S2 years old, died suddenly ia Warsaw,of apoplexy. Brief State Happenings Frank, son of Tcter F. Wilson. living near Lebanon, was killed by a pony. The animal tramped him ;to death. Oscar Knolteight was atally scalded and seven others injured when a thrashing macbinp on the farm of John Sharpc, south of Peru, Lvw up. Five horses were killed. The body of Orley Bordner, who was drowned in Kiddle's lake, south of South Bend, while bathing, has been recovered. Three masked men, with Colt automatics, held up the night agent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Syracuse and his brother at 1 :CO o'clock the other morning. The robbers covered the men through, the window, then raised it and climbed in. They lound and gagged the two mea and removed them to the freight house. The robbers then blew open the safe, broke tbe till, and took $2.75 from the sail.'. Valuable papers in the safe were left. Kev. Charles Keene, the London evangelist who was denounced by Mayor Lyons of Terre Haute as a "liar, scoundrel and grafter who makes a living slandering cities," left town some time in the night, ignoring the fact that he was onJ?1(X) bond to appear as witness in cases against wloonkeepers whom he had charged with violating the law. A group) of ministers and Y. M. C. A. worker who had indorsed Iter. Mr. Keene were humiliated in court when they learned that he had forfeited his bond.- The vice crusaders censure the local press, which attacked the evargellst and Prosecutor Cooper, who treated him harshly. Prptesting against being removed to the county farm William Orpin, who built, the first asphalt street in Ixmdon," Englaud, and Charing Cross chapel, lies in a dying condition at the age of S4 year. in a little hut on Water street, in Kokomo, which once sheltered a famous race horse. Mrs. Everetf Gates, wife of a fanner living near Blotcher, and her three children, aged 2. 4 and G years respectively, met instant death at the B. & O. crossing near the Scott and Jefferson county line. Together with Mr. Gates they had been to New Albany to spend the day and were returning home when the accident occurred.