Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 9, Plymouth, Marshall County, 5 December 1907 — Page 3

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VIXEN By JSfis M. E. Braddon.

V. m CI1APTEI; 'Jl-Ctmtinued. The total wa3 seventeen hundred and sixty-four pounds, fourteen and six pence. Mrs. Carmichael's payments on account amounted to four hundred pounds; leaving a balance of thirteen hundred and sixty-four pounds for the captain to liquidate. "Indeed, dear Conrad, it Is not such a very tremendous account," pleaded Pamela, appalled by the expression of her husband's face. "Theodore has customers wh spend two thousand a year with her.' uVery laudable extravagance, if they are the -wives of millionaires. Cut that the widow of a Hampshire squire, a lady who, six years hence, will have to exist upon a pittance, should run up such a bnl as this, is, to my mind, an act of folly almost criminal. From thi3 moment I abandon all my Ideas of nursing your estate, 01 providing comfortably for our future. Henceforth we must drift toward Insolvency, like other people. It would be worse than useless for me to go on racking my brains In the endeavor to secure a given result, when behind my back your thoughtless extravagance Is stultifying an my effi rts." Here Mrs. Carcnichael dissolved into tears. She went over to him and laid her hand tremulously on his shoulder, and looked town at him with piteous, pleading eyes. Even Conrad Carmichael'i hard nature wa touched by the piieousness of her look and tone. He took tee hand gently and raised it to his lips. "I don't mean to be cruel, Pamela," h.e said. "I only want you to face the truth, and to understand your future position. It is your own money you are squandering and you have a right to waste it if it pleases you to do so. But it is a little hard for a man who has labored and schemed for a giv;a result, suddenly to find himself oat ia his calculations by so -much as thirteen hundred and sixty-four pounds. Let us say no more about it, ray dear. Here Is the bill and It must be paid. We have only to consider the items aid see If the prices are reasonable." And then the captain, with bcLt brow and serious aspect, began to read the lengthy record of an English lady's folly. Most of the Items " he passed over In silence, or" with only a sigh, keeping his wife by his sido, looking over his shoulder. "Point out anything that is wrong." he s;ild; but as yet Mrs. Carmicliaöl had found no error in the bill. I will be dreadfully economical In future, Conrad. For the last year have dressed to please you." "nut what becomes of all the? "gowns?" asked the captain, folding up the bill; "what do you do witb them?" . "They go out." "Ojt where? To the colonies.". dear; they go out of f ashler 7 and 1 give them to Pauline." i sixty-guinea dress flung to you? waiting-maid! The Duchess of Doverdale could not do things in bettv Btyle." I should be very sorry net to dreaj better than the duchess," said Mm. Carmicbael; "she Is always hldeouslj dowdy. But a duchess can afford to. dress ?3 badly as she likes." 'I 6ee. Tnrm it is we only who occupy the borderland of society who have to be careful. Well, my dear Pamela, I shall send Madama Theodore her check, and with your permission close her account; and, unless you receive some large accession .of fortune, I should recommend you not to reopen it." ) His wife gave a heart-breaking Bigh. "I would sacrifice anything for your sake, Conrad," she said; "but I shall be a perfect horror, and you will hate me." I fell in love with you, my dear, cot with your gown." - CHAPTER XIII. Captain Carmichael never again al luded to the dressmaker's bill. He was too wise a man to reopen old wounds or to dwell upon small vexa tions. He had invested every penn that he could spare, leaving the smallest balance at his banker's compat lble with respectability. He had to sell some railway sbares In order to pay Madame Theodore. Happily ths charts had gone up since his puchase of them, and he lost nothing by the transaction but it galled hinj sorely to part Jvith the money. Hs knew not when or whence the nexj call might come, le time In which he had to save money was so short. Only six years, and the heiress would claim her estate, and Mrs. Carmichael voul(I be left with the empty shell ci her present position the privilege cj occupying a fine old Tudor mansion, with enormous staD.es, and fifteen acres of garden and shrubberies, and an annuity that would barely suffice to maintain existence in a third-rate London square. Mrs. Can.ictn.jl wa3 slow to recover from V:: siioik of her husband' Etrong language about Tb-codore's bill. She had married a man who was her Junior; but she had lurried him with the conviction that In nis eyes at leat she had all the bloom and beauty of youth, and that he admired and loved her above all other women. She was deeply afflicted by the idea that hw husband bad perceived the signs of advancing years in her face. And now she fell to perusing her looking glass more critically than she had ever doue before. There were line3 on her forehead unmistakable. Ineffaceable lints. She could wear her hair In no wvr that would hide them, unless she hid hidden her foreuead altogether under a bush 01 frizzy, fluffy curls. There was a faded look about her complexion, too, which sue had never before discovered a wanness, a yellowness. Once to have been exquisitely beautiful, the inspiration of poets, the chosen model of painters, and to see the glory lading that, for & weak woman, must be sorrow's crown of sorrow. That scene about Theodore's bill had exercised a curious effect upon her mind. To an intellect so narrow trifles were important, and that the .husband who had so much admired and praised the elegance of her appearance could grudge the cost of her toilet galled her sorely. It was positively for her the first revelation of her husband's character. His retrenchment in household expenses she had been ready to applaud as praiseworthy economies; but when he assailed her own extravac12.ee she saw in nun a husband vrho

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loved far too wisely to love well. She could not take the captain'w common sense view of a subject bo Important to herself. Love In her mini meant a blind indulgence like the squire's. Love that could count the cost of its idol's caprices and calculate the chanches of the future was not love. That feeling of poverty, too, was a new sensation to the mistress of the Abbey House, and a very unpleasant one. Married very young to a man of ample means, who adored her, and never set the slightest restriction upon her expenditure, extravagance had become her second nature. To have to study over every outlay, to ask herself whether she could not do without a thing, was a hard trial; but It had become so painful to her to ask the captain for money that she preferred the novel plan of self denial to that humiliation. Captain Carmlchael pursued the even tenor of his way all this time and troubled himself but little about his wife's petty sorrows. He did his duty to her according to his own lights and considered that she had no ground for complaint. He even took pains to be less subdued in his manner' to Lady bii;ngowan, and to give no shadow of reason for the foolish jealousy he so mtch despised. His mind was busy about his own affairs. He had saved money since his marriage, and he eraployed himself a tjood deal in the investment of hi3 savings. So far he l-ad been lucky in all he touched and had contrived to Increase nis capital by one or two speculative ventures in foreign railways. If things went on ! as well for the next six years he and his wife might live at the Abbey House and maintain their station in the county till the end of the chapter. "I dare say Pamela will outlive me," thou5.1t the captain; "those fragile looking Invalid women are generally long-lived. And I have all the chances f the huntingfield, and vicious horses, end other men's blundering with" loadtd guns, against me. What can happen to a woman who sits at home and works crewel antimacassars and read3 novels. Secure in this Idea of his wife's longevity and happy in his speculations, Captain Carraichael looked forward cheerfully to the future; and the evil shadow of the day Mhen the hand of fate should thrust him from the good old blouse where he was master hid never fallen across his dreams. CHAPTER XIV. Spring had returned, primroses and violets were being sold at the street corners, Parliament was assembled and London had reawakened from Its wintry hibernation to new life and vigor. The Dovedales were at their Kensington mansion. The duchess had sent forth her card3 for alternate Thursday evening3 of a quasi-literary and scientific character. , Lady Mabel was polishing her poem3 with serious thoughts for publication, but with strictest secrecy. -No one but her parents and' Roderick Vawdrey had been told of these poetic flights. The book would be given to the world under a nom de plume. Lady Mabel was not so much a Philistine as to suppose that writing poetry could be a disgrace to a duke's daughter; but Bhe felt that the house of Ashbourne would be seriously compromised were the critics to find her guilty of writing doggerel; and critics are apt to deal harshly with the titled muse. So,' for want of any better. Lady Mabel was constrained to read her verses to her future husband; just as iMoliere read his play3 to his house keeper, for want of any other hearer, the two Bejarts, aunt and niece, having naturally plays enough and to spare in the theatre. Now, in this crucial hour of her poetic career, Mabel Ashbourne wanted something more than a patient listener. She wanted a critic with a fine ear for rhythm and euphony. To this nice task she invited her betrothed some times OA a sunny April afternoon. when luncheon was over, and the lovers were free to repair to Lady Mabel's own particular den an airy room on an upper floor, with quaint old Queen Anne casements opening upon a balcony crammed with flowers, and overlooking the umbrageous avenues of Kensington Gardens, with a glimpse of the old red palace In the distance. Itorie did his best to be useful, and applied himself to his duty with perfect heartiness and good temper; but luncheon and the depressing London atmosphere made him sleepy, and he had sometimes hard work to stifle his yawns and to keep his eyes open, while Lady Mabel was deep In the entanglement of lines which soared to the seventh heaven of metaphysics. Unhappy Rorie knew hardly anything about meiaphystics. He had never read Victor Cousin, or any of the great German lights; and a feeling of dispair took possession if him when his sweetheart's poetry degenerated into diluted Hagelism, or rose to a feeble imitation of Browning's obscurest verse. "Either I must be ltnensely stupid or thi3 must be rather difficult to understand," he thought, helplessly, when Mabel had favored him with the perusal of the first act of poetic doulogue. In which the hero, a kind of milk and water Faustus, held converse, and argued upon the deeper questions of life and faith, with a very mild Mephisto. It was about this time that Lord Mallow, vho was working with all his might for O-p regeneration of his country, mad'i a great hit In the house by his speech on the Irish land question. He had been doing wonderful things In Dublin for the winter, holding forth to patriotic assemblies In the Round Room of the Rotunda, holding declaring himself a champion of the Home Rulers cause, demanding Repeal and nothing but Repeal. He was one of the few Repealers who had a stake In the country, and who was likely to lose by the disruption of social order. If foolish, he was at least disinter ested, and had the courage of his opi Ions. In the House of Commons Lord Mallow was not ashamed to repeat the arguments he had used in the Round Room. He had his party here, a3 well as on the other side of the Irish Channel, and his party applauded him. He came to Lady Mabel naturally In his triumphs, and he came to her in his disappointment. She was pleased and flattered by his faith In her wisdom, and was always ready to lend a grpr.ious ear. She, whose soul was full of ambition, was deeply Interested In the career of an ambitious youn' "ian a irar. who had every cause f

betas sätltoir &s4 141, and jt tu neither. "If Roderick wero only l!Xe him thi a would be nothing wanting in my life."

she thounht. regretfully. "I should have felt such pride in a husband's , fair.e, I should have worked so gladly j 10 assist him in his career, and onu evening, whwi Mabel and Lord Mallow were standing in the embrasure of a windo?. the lady,- almost unawares, quoted a couplet of her own which seemed peculiarly applicable to the a7 gument ur.'Ier discussion. "Whose lines are those?" Lord Mallow asked eagerly; "I never heard them before." Mabel flushed Ilk a school girl detected in sending a valentine. "Upon my soul," cried the Irishman. "I believe they are yourown! Yes, I am sure of it. You. whose mind Is so high above the common level, must ; sometimes express yourself In poetry. They art; yours, are they not?" "Can you keep a secret?" Lady Mable askey, shyly. "For you? Yes, on the rc;k. "Wild horses should not tear it out of my heart; boiling lead, falling on me drop by drop, should not extort it from me." "The lines are mine.,1 havo written a great deal in verse. I am going to publish a volume, annohymously, before the season is over. It is quite a secret. No one, except mamma 'and papa, and Mr. Vawdrey, knows any thing about it." "How proud they are how especially proud Mr. Vowdrey must be of your geniu3," said Lord Mallow. "What a lucky fellow he Is!" (To be Continued.) A STUDY IN "SPARKS." When In a Diamond Xut to Ha Clael a a l'ri'clon Stone f When Is a diamond not a procloui stone? asks the Boston Transcript. Tbii question was involved in a receut hearing which occurred in v the r.ppraiser'i office at Boston. It involved the classification for duty of an imiortation ol diamonds intended for industrial purjioses. These particular diamonds were to be used as, bearings in electric motors. The diamonds wore brownish la color and each had 0:10 surface cut and polished. Duty was assessed upon them at the rate of 10 p,'r cent ad valorem, but the importers claimed free entry for the.u, contending that they were what is known in trade as "bort," that is, diamonds which are used exclusively for industrial purposes. The preponderance of the evidence showed that at the present time the diamonds In the condition that they were imported would not be known as rose diamonds, and that they cauuot be commercially cut and 'adapted to jewelry purposes In this country. The treasury department has decided in favor of the protestnnts, the officials here taking tbe ground that for tariff purpose the department Is concerned only with the question as to how the diamonds in question would havo been regarded at the time the tariff act of 1S07 was passed. I Is held that present conditions are not material to the case, and that therefore it is not of Importance whether or not. in view of the continuous advance In the price of all grades of diamonds during the last ten years, the better jualities of bort could be cut into the form of rose diamonds. It was held that this particular Importation' of diamonds ot Roston was intended for Industrial purposes and would have been known In 1S97 as bort" and that therefore they are so to be regarded to-day. This entitles them to free entry and the 10 ner cent duty exacted of the importers at lioston will be returned to them as a result of this decision. A 11 u layer fop, A Kansas man was telling stories with reference to the propensity of farmers to overstate tbe slz& of their wheat-crops, says a writer In the Sunday Magazine. He told cf an elderly man iu Topeka, w!k was engaged In the hardware business. A farmer, who was always giving skilfully padded accounts of Lis wheat-harvest, called on the hardware dealer one day, and began his usual boasting. "Yon don't tell me:" was the poMe rejoinder of ,th? hardware man. "Well, I have been doing some farming this year myself." -I didn't know that" said the farmer.. "I always supposed your interests were confined to the city. So ycu have 4 farm, oh? What do you raise?" "Wheat, Just wheat," was tbe reply. "Good crop this year?" Fine!" IIow many bushels?" "I don't know Just how many bushels." replied the hardware man, in a slow, hesitating tone, calculated to Impress every word upon his listener; 'but my men stacked all they could outdoors, and then stored the restof it In the barn." Dead Sea Ha thine Io an article 011 bathing iu the Dead pea a clergyman who ha1? made the experiment say3 ; Xo sooner has one plunged Into the water than one ia whipped on" one's feet and goes hobbling helplessly about, like a wretched cork. In the effort to regain one's footing and get back to shore, one's feet and shins are barked by the jagged stones and pebbles, and when at leugth one does emerge from Its treacherous bosom, with the lower limbs bleeding aud torn, one becomes aware of a horrible tingling and burning sensation in eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth and almost every pore of the skin from the brine and bitumen which have penetrated everywhere. Unless great care is taken the bather In the pead sea Is liable to an eruption, which breaks out all over the body and which is comnun'7 known as the 'Dead sea rash.' T' best antidote to this Is to hurry aero us quickly as possible to the river Jo dan and to take a second plunge there in. The soft and muddy waters of that sacred but dirty stream will effectually remove the salt that has Incrusted tba tody." New York Tribune. Too Much Eserclae. Hop Li had bought n cheap but "warranted" clock. At the end of a week he returned to the shop from which he had procured his time-piece, with no expression on his face, but with evident bewilderment of mind. '.She go, click, clack! click, clack! all tree day," be announced to the woman who waited 011 him. "I J all light, samee you say. Nes day she go click, click clack! click, click! clack! "I shake her up so! down so! lound so! no good. She stop clickstop clack only go when I slake. I say give me one less slake, mort click, clack!" Ila Apology. "What now, Uoprsby? Have you boon getting married a confirmed womai hater like yon?" "Ifs traf, SJyfers. But, I er almo l.-d to do U. It wfis the only way ,f ftt my old tightwad of a boss t Mtj ft vacation."

Tie llenpeeklne Wife. The henpecking wife's greatest crime ;s her ignorant e of the meaning of the Diarriage vow. She actually believes that she has a right to dictate to her ausbacd. to fret at liim, to nag him. to rder his way of living just because she is married to him. Why must a man's personal liberty be at an end aecause he has taken unto himself a vife? Every man and woman is a person and is entitled to certain liberties, ?ertain freedom of action,, certain respect from other persons, but the henpecking wife doesn't recognize any of these laws. Woman admires manliness, yet the ivoman who restricts her husband's personal lilterty makes a dummy of him. lie has arms and legs, tongue and teeth, even a brain, bütthese he must not use as he chooses. He must bate as she hates, love whom she loves, sat as she eats, think as she thinks, believe as she believes, even to the worshiping of her od. She scolds j thinks she has a right to. Worse, she Jaws. If he spills his coffee she jaws.' If he tracks in mud she jaws. If he forgets to mail a letter she jaws. The henpecking wife feels too much responsibility. If her husband talks too much, speaks too loudly, laughs too heartily, she takes his sin upon her own shoulders and is "so mortified." Why? She doesn't care how loudly the grocer laughs. Her husband Isn't a piece of her that she Kiust bo responsible for his vocal defects. A man is a person, married or single. The marriage vow contains 110 clause which gives a woman the right to rob her husband of its free will; nor does it say that, she can lose her temper and scold him with impunity. No matter how much he loves her, he Is in no way a part of her. He is a being, au individual, with just as much right to his personal belief, aims, ambitions, hopes, fears, habits, as he bad before be married her. When women learn these truths they will have too much respect for the individuafity, the strength, the personality of their husbands to allow themselves to develop into henpecking wives. Cynthia Grey. Tailored Suit. Trimmed with bands of black panne. Enamel buttons. Iirocaded vest. Coll rue Woman Creed. I believe iu the home and the family. I believe In sane and rational daily housekeeping, to which I am ready to give the necessary amount of time and energy. I believe It is my duty to scrutinize my manner of living and to determine what useless financial burdens I am carrying. I believe that the result of my home life should be the health and good temper of my family and the sense of living" the life of tbe spirit as well as of the body. I believe it is my duty to proportion my expenses to iny income in such a way ns to make a home of comfort and simplicity without undue anxiety. Hope Kirn for I'eatitiiilat. Even a born pessimist may cultivate a cheerful, honest openness of countenance, though I admit it will come hard at first. But she may do it by thinking &f the best side of things, and remembering that there is some good in everything if only one will search for' it. Once discovered this must be held tightly, otherwise It's apt to get away, but If one remembers that though there Is dishonesty In the world there is honesty, too; that though times may be hard they are bound to get better; and that cheerfulness will help It on; if she will make herself strong and sweet with kindness, not bitterness in her heart, she will develop a smile because of the happiness within. Exchange. Kd urate Women IV Taate. An associate editor of a French fashion paper has declared that "the mass of women are void jof taste, and of any iden of dress fitness. They persis; in joyfully adopting year after year every ridiculous mode put on the market for their wear, however unbecoming or uiisuited to their figures. No remedy seems possible, unless a law of the land be enacted obliging every girl in her j'outh at school to be educated In tho art of dressing herself properly, l;ing thereby made to recognize good taste from bad and fitness from unfitness." Xew Hair OrnanientM. Hair ornaments are again In high vogue. One ol' the newest and most becoming of the simple devices is the bow of dotted tulle or net bound with velvet and wired into a backward-turning wing shape. White bows of gauze aro bound with white satin. These bows are worn low on the head. Twisted wisps of tulle twining In and out of colls and braids are caught with jewels or little clusters of flowers and ending in a h'-carf of the tulle twined about the throat and caught to the bodice with a jewel or flower arc a reminiscence of old days. Tell Your Wife You Love Her. The average woman Is won through Itf e and its manifestations, and when the devoted lover becomes submerged Into the careless husband she suffers

more than any man can understand. She wants something more than material comforts she wants as much of his time as she had when he was wooing her. She wants frequent proofs of Iiis lasting affection. And when he fails to fill these wants he opens the door to some other man who is more thoughtful enter the "affinity," the "soul mate," nothing more than newnames for old things, for the man or woman who, makes existence pleasant. It is probable that we would never have heard the names had not humanity reached such a point of carelessness. We take life so seriously that we find no time to foster sentiment beyond a certain prescribed limit.

At the hem of the circular skirts wide Greek or other conventional borders are shown in heavy and beautiful braids with velvet or fur introduced, and the skirt trains'ever so little. The waist to a gown like this (for these costumes are in three parts, the coat usually on Directoire lines) has a square or V-neck for .1 guimpe yoke; at the edge the border design again appears, but in a smaller pattern. The yoke is of filet, Irish, or Florentine, ns taste aud purse inay inspire; all are good. Don't for HaubnndM. Don't hang about the kitchen giving advice about this and that, unless you allow your wife the same privilege at your place of business. Don't show all your kindness and courtesy away from home and let only the ugly side of your disposition manifest itself nt home. Don't listen to the man who begins to criticise his wife in public; advise him to settle those things in the privacy of his own home. Don't forget that your owu family bus as much right to a pleasant greeting when met as the business or social acquaintance next door. Don't be lavish In your expenditure for a downtown lunch and cigars while you think out plans for. great er" economy Iu the family grocery , bill. , Don't ailow any quarrels to crop out before children or servants, leaving all such things reserved for private discussion, with mutual confidence aud kindness. Don't demand an itemized report of every cent you give her, and if she makes an unwise expenditure think how many times you have given her the same example. Irl and "Old Maid." ' Never sneer, girls, at an unhappy "old maid." Once she was very likely just ns sweet and young and sunnyhearted as yourselves. But she missed the road which may, perhaps, ltad you to a sweetheart and a prospect of married happiness. Of course, she was wrong to turn sour. To brood over things that cannot be helped is weak-spirited. There are mauy roses to be gathered in the garden of life over and beyond the romance belonging to men and maids. Success and happiness can be won by any girl of to-day, even if nobody comes to woo. But neither is likely to come to tte girl who, when love fails her, sits down to weep and wall over a might-have-been marriage. A Thought. A childish good time does not consist in never being punished. No, indeed, there are times when even the best children. Just like grown-up people, need the strongest kind of discipline. But the thing is not to Im? scolding aud nagging at them all the time, making them cross and Irritable, and developing In them nervous and ugly dispositions which will cling to them all through their lives. Home Chat. mm No baby can be well if its liver does not act with the utmost regularity. The slightest variation in its functions requires immediate attention, and the longer treatment is deferred the more difficult will be the cure. Torpidity rather than over-activity is likely to be the cause of trouble In this organ when cold weather begins. The symptoms of this state are 'easy tp discover. In the case of torpid liver in a baby almost a year old, who Is still being nursed and given 110 bottle food, lack of nourishment is sometimes the cause. That is, a baby literally is not getting enough nourishment for the liver to have anything upon which to act, and he is out of health in consequence. Am to Letter Writing. It Is a well-known fact that nobody writes letters nowadays. It is true we si tend a vast deal of time at our writing table, that we consume untold quantities of ink and nibs, while our stationery :ill Is by no means the most modest item of our ever-increasing expenditures. . But we neither write nor receive letters. The utmost we do is to "dash off notes" In answer to invitations, to "scribble a few lines" of congratulation or sympathy, as the case may be,

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with a friend; to express briefly but forcibly our dissatisfaction with our dressmaker, or our surprise of our milliner's account. As for our absent relations, on the rare occasions when we remember their existence at all, we send them our love on a post card with a few details about the weather, ending in "tearing haste" with the hope that they will write soon and tell us all their news. Of course, they never do, which is just as well, as if they did we should in all probability never have time to wade through their letters.

Table Manner.' The following general rules, the observance of which will reduce the chances of contagion, have been laid down by Prof. II. W. Conn, professor of biology iu Wesleyau University. Eat the right kinds and quantity of food, and at suitable times. The food should always be well masticated.No overeating nor excessive drinking. Do not eat too often nor too great a variety at the same meal. Do not take cold liquids so as lo chill the stomach, nor drink too much with food. If drink other than water is needed, take that which coutains nourishment, rather than that which has none. Stimulants should very rarely be taken. Do not spit on the floor. Do not put the fingers in the' mouth. Do not wet the fingers In the mouth for the purpos of turning the leaves of a book, especially library books in as much as book leaves are sometimes tbe lurking places of disease bacteria. Do not put pencils in the mouth. Do not put money iu the mouth. Turn aside from others when coughing. What to Eat. Prlneesa Gonn. This gown is made of ecru cloth and trimmed with folds of light brown taffeta. Collar and sleeve bands of white voile, embroidered in gold thread. Plants Killed by Heat. The ordinary 'furnace-heated house is a bad place in which to grow plants. The air seems to have had all the dampness removed, and that moist condition so conducive to a good growth in plants is not found. This may, in a measure, be overcome by means of evaporation, which, while not supplying a great amount of moisture, should do something toward relieving the bad condition of the atmosphere. ' Place jars or pans of water in, around or about the furnace, hang buckets of water dowu Inside the furnace pipes, below the registers, or place them anywhere that rapid evaporation may be induced. Keep all the plantM in light, airy locations, but away from draughts. Never consign a well-grown specimen palm to a corner of the room, though it may 'look better there. Its beautiful apiearance will last a short time only In the dark, close place. It may seem strange to some, but the very lest place in the house, if the temperature there can be maintained at an even point, is the kitchen, because of the constant evaporation of the water as it puffs from the spout of the teakettle. !. Men mb The man who encourages his wife to oelong to women's clubs saves himself from being reformed. If men only jollied their wives aa much after marriage as they do before, there would be no divorces. A man's Ideal of what a wife ought to be is n Sevres vase in the parlor and an iron pot in the kitchen. Most of the fortunes aro made lecause Bill Smith was determined that his wife should have as big diamonds as Tom Jones' wife has. When a man Is la love with a woman he always calls her little, no matter if she is six feet high and weighs two hundred and fifty pounds. They say that the age of chivalry is dead and gone, and yet there are men who still get up in the night and walk the baby when it has the colic. The majority of American married men think that their wives are just about all right, but they would die rather than let the women find it out. Lonic-Llved Women. The artistic life Is conducive of longevity in men. Apropos of this. It would seem that literature might make a similar claim as regards women. For instance, Caroline Ilerschel reached the age of 98; Harriet Lee, 09; Mary So.mcrvllle, 92; Hannah Moore, SS; Maria Edgeworth and Anna Barbauld, S2 ; Jane Porter 74 ; George Sand, 72, and Mary Mitford died in her 70th year. Bedroom Slippers. These are merely straw sandals found at any Japanese store and can be had for 35 cents a pair. They have woven soles, light but thick, with cross straps for the toes and are much warmer than they look. The passenger cars of the state railways of Germany are painted three different colors to indk-ate the class. The scheme Is said to be a great convenience to travel rrs.

H00SIER STATE MEMORIAL.

Design for Indiana Monument at Vicksburg Military Camp. The illustration represents the design of the monument which will mark the position of Gen. McGinnis brigade, at Vicksburg, but all the monuments for the infantry commands are of the 6ame general effect with the five-command monument, marking the Twelfth, One Hundredth, Ninety-seventh and Ninety-ninth Indiana infantry commands, and a battery, posdbIy a trifle larger. All will bear the names of the commands in position on the site selected for instance, the McGinnis brigade monument bearing not only the names of the Eleventh and Twenty-fourth Indiana infantry regiments, as observable in the foreground, but on the corresponding squares the names of the Thirty-fourth and. Forty-sixth Indiana regiments. What are designated as threepommund, wo-comninxl and pne-coia-mand monuments will be correspondingly smaller in dimensions, but "-till all of them will be of conspicuous size, and they will occupy commanding positions. They will bear the seal of the State. A slight change in general design is noticeable in the monument for the First Indiana Light Artillery, and also Comwhere m'gimxis' bmgade stood. pnny C, Fourth Indiana cavalry, ia that, for the battery, the crossed lilies with baj-onets Is replaced with two cannon in similar position, while that of the cavalry carries fibers. The Indiana commission has received estimates showing that all of the monuments can be erected within the legislative appropriation of $38,000, and ia comparison with the monuments already in position, representing Ohio and Illinois and even'Iowa, they will be equally as handsome, and possibly may Teceive more commendation because of the good taste shown in selection. Every one of them, when in position, can be seen to good advantage, as the Indiana troops were well forward in the campaign against Vicksburg. INDIANA GAME LAW. It Has Some Provisions Not Generally Understood. The charge for hunter's license to those IiviDg within the State is $1 for each license and to those who are citizens of other States $15.50. This money is remitted to the State Treasurer and is used in part to pay the commissioner" of fisheries and game and his deputies. Not less than one-third of the money received from this source is required by law to be spent in the purchase and distribution of live quail and other species of live game for the purpose of restocking the State with such as may for any reason become scarce. Just now, while the hunting season ia on, t here are a few things t'iat every one ought to know1 in regard to the game law3. No license is issued to any person under 14 years of age, ünles the application is endorsed in writing by the parents or guardian. Owners of farm lands, their children or tenants may hunt on the lands of which they are the owners or tenants during the hunting season without procuring a license. A person can hunt rabbits in the township in which he resides without license. No hunter shall kill more than fifteen quail in one day, and in three consecutive days not more than forty-five. The penalty attached to any violation of the game law is, for a resident of the State, not less than $5 nor more than $20 for each offense. For non-residents, not less than $25 nor more than $100, to which may be added not more than ßixty days in the county jail. The game laws of the State are being better understood and appreciated each year. These laws are the outcome of years of effort, and while there is yet much to improve they are nevertheless of great value in preserving to the people the useful native birds and animals that nature has provided for them. The hunting season opened Nov. 10 and will continue until Jan. 1.' Tlie fame laws of Ohio and Kentucky are not the same as the Indiana law, but in both States they are very strict. Rabbits and quail are plentiful EMBEZZLEMENT CASE UNIQUE. Trial of Delinquent Treasurer Brings Out Flea of Bonding Concern. John F. Walker, former treasurer of Vanderburg county, who is charged with the embezzlement of $C3,r00 in county funds, has been placed on trial again at Kockport. The first trial, several, months ago, resulted in a disagreem?nt. The surety company that was 0:1 Walker's bond has refused to make good the alleged 6hortage. The company says it Mill weit until the courts have passed on the Walkercase and that if he is found not guilty it will go into the courts and set up the plea that there is no shortage in view of the fact that Walker was acquitted. In this respect tbe case is uniqu. As president of the Evansville team in the Central baseball league Walker lost monej. He also was known as a "good fellow' and loaned thousands of dol'ars to his friends. It also ia alleged he lost considerable money in speculation. Not rollte an the Neighbors. Mrs. Nexdore Prof. Adagio called at our house yesterday and my daughter played the piano for him. He Just raved over her playing. Mrs. Teprey How rude! Why couldn't he conceal his feelngs, the way the rest of us do? Philadelphia Preta. Reallr the Troth. "She says she gets so tired of shopping, it makes her so weary." "Such airs! As if she had any time for It. Of course, I don't know, but I'll bet she works all day." "That's Just it ; she's a saleswoman. Philadelphia Press. ; Make HUI for Ulm. "Is your machine a good hill climber?" "I should say sol It is taking me over the hills to the poorhousc." Smart Set. Siegfried Jones. Said a musical maid named Maria. "Those Wagnerian strains I admire. Uut her friend said, "My dear, 'Tis not Wagner you hear. But Jones shoveling coal on the fire." Connotation. "Steward, how long will It be before we get into the harbor?" "About an hour and a half, ma'am. "Ob, dear, I shall die before then." "Very likely, ma'am. But you'll b all right again when you've been on iihore ten minutes." Marine Journal.

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NAILED IN BOX CAB. Railroad Station Agrnt Held Up bf Two Men nnd Itobbod. II. A. Ilanning, agent at th Evansville and Terra Haute railroad station in Sullivan; was held up at 2:00 o'clock tbe other morning by two mxskel men. The strangers entered the off ce nnd overpowered Ilanning before he could oiler resistance. By means of a rope th?y tied him, hands and fret, and carried mm to an empty boi car which was on the siding. They nailed up the door of .he car, then went back to the o.1ice and looted the cash drawer of $45. When the crew of a north-bound passenger train arrived at the station at 3:50 and found the office empty they made a search of the place, and were attracted to the box car by the yells of Ilanning. They released hhn and took him back to the. statiou. He was uninjured. There is no clew to the robbers, except that one is described as a tall man and the other one as a short man. TRIED ACID AND RIVER. Farmer Baffled In Two efforts to EmM. Ills Life. Wesley Alsop, farmer, SS years old, who had been dissipating freely in Vincenncs, paid a fine of $10 in the City Court for drunkenness, after which he entered Jordan's saloon and invested his last .r-cent piece in a glass of beer, into which ly poured carbolic acid and attempteuo drink the compound. The bartender knocked the glass from Lis Hps. and he did the iame with he bottle of acid, to which Alsop had clung. Alsop then started for the river with the purpose of committing suilcde by drowning, but he was intercepted by Captain Krnse of the police force, and after a stubborn fight he was committed to jad till his relatives could be communicated with. KICKED DEAD BY HORSE. Animal, Prenented to Father br 'Kid' "Wnrner, Damage Rarn. Giles Warner. GO years old, of Haremoud, was found dead in a barn in tb rear of his home. He was kicked to death by a hor.e presented to him a few week a?o by his son, "Kid" Warner, wellknown sporting man and promoter of moving picture theaters and penny arcades. The victim's head was crushed. Part of the barn had also bven demolished by the hoofs of the animal. Mr. Warner was the owner of the iarjest dryooa. store in Hammond and was a pioneer resident of the city. Cremated While Snioklnar. While smoking a pipe- Mrs. Mary Brown of Petersburg, SO years old, fell asleep and the pipe, dropping into ber lap, her clothing caught Cre. Before help reached her the clothing was burned from her body and the chair in which she was seated was partially consumed,. Train Kills Two at Grousing, Harry Waters, ased IT, and h Walter Waters, aged 22J living and his son. even miles east of Greencastle, were struck by the fast mail train on the- Vandalia and instantly killed at the village of AImcda. Dos Save Master from Dall. Rushin to the aid of their master, two big dogs saved the life of Al Warner, a farmer. Who , was knocked down by m. fierce bull and whose prostrate form wai bfinj beaten by the savage brute near Wabash. Illation In Salt for Damages. Bishop Chatard has Rued .he Dupoot Powder Company for $.1,000 damages to St. Aupustine's Roman Catholic church, caused by. the explosion of the powder mill at Fontanel. The company has compromised five death claims at $700 each. JndKf Has Dor of IT Whipped. Claud King, aged 17, charged with assaulting a Kmall child, was ordered whipped by Police Judge J. G. Winfrey in Evansville. The boy was takn into tbe police station an 3 about fifty lashes were given him by his mother. Fonnd Dead by Ills Wife. George Zimmerman of Iadoga, S4 year old, was found dead in bed by his wife, when she tried to call him to breakfast, lie had been complaining for several day but was not thought to be seriously ill. Drops Dead Darius Quarrel. Mr? Mary Banyard, aged 00, dropped dead at her son's feet during a violent quarrel with him in EransviUe. She had been in apparent good health. Whipped Ills Stepson. Ora Mullenix was fined nnd sent to jail by Judge Converse of Ri'-hmond upon conviction for brutally Lipping his 0-y car-old stepson. nnys a Farm for f 11,100. James Doddridge, living in the eastern part of Milton township, his sold ki farm to frank Broaddux of Connenville for $11,000. It contains ICO acres. Killed hy a Corn Shreddtr. Flora Diredorf, aged 4, of Onter Point, is dead from injuries inflicted by a cor shredder. Her dress, blown by the wind, was caught in the cogs of the machine. MINOR STATE ITEMS. .While returning from a hunting trip Edward Tugh, cashier of the First National Irank of Rushville, war fatally shot near Camden, Ohio. After being out thirty-six hours, the jury that tried Thomas lurnall, ex-recorder of Brown county, at Nashville on. a charge of embezzlement returned a verdict of guilty. Fred Sands, 14 years old, who accidentally shot and killed Cirover C. Hayden, 17 years old. a few days ago, nenr Logansport, has been exonerated by t coroner. The boys were in a barn, with Sands on the lower floor. Not knowing the weapon was loaded, he pointed tim gun upward and pulled tbe trigger, tb bullet striking Hay den in the head, ant killing him instantly. Allegin that her husbanjl, John Iiennox, has a passion for economy which i4 a mania, Mrs, Stella Lennox has started divorce proceedings in South Bend. Sivs says that tie will not allow tier to use gas to read when she is in bed, claiming it is waste. Lennox is worth about 52.",ttX). i Troubled by his conscience, Mervln Hertzel of Norwich. N. I, has remitted; 7.1 cents back taxes to the treasurer oJ Kosciusko county. The amount is for the second installment of lJSlK). He say in his letter "that 75 cents is es big a mountain in the igat of the Lord, 4 I can't get aroani it." An effort is bMng made to Becure & pardon for William Fundy of Fond da Lac, Wis., now SO years of age, and known as the prison patriarch, who ia, serving a term in the Michigan City prison for horse stealing. Fundy is alleged! to have operated extensively in Wisconsin and Indiana, and was apparently K respected citizen at the-time of his arrest by Indiana officers in Fond du Lae several years ago. Friends in Fond du; Lac have promised to give the venerabki convict a home the remainder of his years. Samuel Kreider was drowned in Small lake, near Cromwell, by the accidental overturning of his boat.

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