Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 11, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 December 1907 — Page 3

VIXEN Cc By Miss M. E. Braddon.

CHAPTER XV Continued. At Ashbourne preparations liad already begun for the wedding in August. Kinsfolk and old friends were coming from far and wide to assist at tho ceremony, for whom terrporary rooms were to be arranged in all manner of places. The duchess exquisite dairy was to be transformed into a bachelor's rlormitory. Lodges and game-keepers cottagos were utilized. Every nook and corr.er in the ducal mansion would be full. The bride-elect was cut of spirits and inclined to look despondently upon life. She was suffering the bitter pain of disappointed hopes. '"The Tragedy of a Skeptic Soul," despite Its depth of thought, its exquisite typography and vellum-like paper, had been a dire and irredeemable failure. The reviewers had ground the poor little aristocratic butterfly to powder upon the wheel of ridicule. They bad anatomized Lady Mabel's Involved sentences, and laughed at her erudite phrases. Her mild adaptations of Greek thought and fancy had been found out and held up to contempt. Her petty plagiarisms from French and German poets had been traced to their source. The whole work, so smooth and neatly polished on the outside, had been turned the seamy side without, and the knots and flaws and raveled threads had been exposed without pity. Happily the book was anonymous; but Mabel writhed under the criticism. She had a long way to descend. And there was the sickening certainty that In the eyes of her own small circle she had made herself ridiculous. Tier mother took those cruel reviews to heart and wept over them. The duke, a coarse-minded man at best, with a soul hardly above guano and chemical composics, laughed aloud at hi?, poor little girl's failure. "It's a sad disappointment, I dare Bay, he said, "but never mind, my pet; youll do better next time, I've no doubt." "Those horrid reviewers don't understand your poetry," protested the duchess, who would have been hard pushed to comprehend it herself, but who thought It was a critic's business to understand everything. I am afraid I have written above their had3," Lady Mabel said, piteous! y. Roderick Vawdrey was worse of all. "Didn't I tell you The Skeptic Soul' was too fine for ordinary intelects, Mab?" be said. You lost yourself in an ocean of obscviity. You knew what you meant, but there's no man alive who could follow you. You must take a simpler subject and use plainer English if you want to please the multitude." Mabel had tcld her lover before that she did not aspire to please the multitude, that she would have esteemed such cheap and tawdry success as humiliating failure. But she would have Hired some one to read her poems. She would have liked critics to praise and understand her. She would have liked to have her own small world of admirers, an esoteric few, the salt of the earth, literary essences, holding themselves apart from the. vulgar herd. It wa3 dreadful to find herself on a height as lonely as one of those pltateaus in the Tyrolean Alp3 where the cattle crop a scanty herbage In Summer, and wber the Ice King reigns alone through the long Winter. "You are mistaken, Roderick," Mabel said, with chilling dignity: "I have friends who can understand and admire my poetry, Incomprehensible and uninteresting as it may be to. you." "Dear Mabel, I never said it was uninteresting," Roderick cried, humbly "everything you do must be Interesting to me. But. I frankly own I do not understand your verses as clearly as I think all verses should be understood I will be truthful, even at the risk cf offending you." "Pray do," cied Mabel, with 111Buppressed irritatioa. "Sincerity Is Buch delightful thing. No doubt my critics are r-'-'.eere. They give me the honest, undisguised truth." Rorie saw that hi 3 betrothed's literary failure was a subject to be carefully avoided in future. "My poor Vixen," he said to himself, with oh! what deep regret, "perhaps It was one of tae least of your charms that you never vrote poetry." Lord Mallow wa3 coiaing to Ashbourno for the fortnight before the weddiag. He had made himself wondrously agreeable to the duke, and the duke had invit'd him. The House would be up by that time. It was a delightful season for the Forest. The heatht-r would be in blood on all the open heights, the glades cf Mark Ash would be a solemn world of scenery and shadow, a delicious piace for picnics, flirtation and gypsy tea-drinkers. Lord Mallow had only seen the Forest In tho Winter. It would be a grand oportunity for him. That visit to Ashbourne was one of the nost memorable pericyte in Lord Mallow's life. He was an Impressible youne; man, and he had teen unconsciously falling deeper in love with Lady Mabel every day during the last three months. Her delicate beauty, her culture, her elegance, herVrank, all ctarmed and fasinated him; but her sympathy with Erin uas irresisIble. It was not the Orst time that he had been In love by a gieat many time. But today, uwakenrd all at once to a keen perception of his hapless state, he tol himself that he had neve? loved before as he lved now. He had been hard hit by Miss Tempest. Yes, ho acknowledged that past weakness. He had thought her fairest acd most delightful amoc$ women, and he had left the Abey House dejected and undone. But he had quickly recovered from the brief fever; and now, reverentially admiring Lady Mabel's prim propriety, he wondered that he would have ever seriously offered himself to a girl of Vixen's undisciplined and unbroken character. He was deeply, hopelessly, Irrevocably In love; and the lady he loved was to be married to another man in less than a week. The situs.tion was too awful. What could such a woman as Mabel Ashbourne see in such a man as Roderick Vawdrey? Lord Mallow could find no satisfactory answer thereto. Mr. Vawdrey wa3 well enough In his way he wa3 good looking, sufficiently well bred; he rode well, was a first rate shot, and could give an average player odds at billiards, ßurely these were small claims to the love of a tenth muse, a rarely iicompllshed and perfect won. an. If Lord

Mallow, in his heart of hearts, thought no great things of Lady Mabel's poetic effusions, he not the less respected her for the effort, the high-souled endeavor. In this desperate and for the most part unsuspected condition of mind, Lord Mallow hung upon Lady Mabel's footsteps during the days immediately before the wedding. Roderick was superintending the alterations at Briarwood, which were being carried on upon rather an extravagant scale to make the mansion worthy of the bride. Lord Mallow was always at hand, in the orchid-houses, carrying scissors and adjusting the hose; in the library, in the gardens., in the boudoir. He was drinking greedily of the sweet poison. This fool's paradise of a few daya must end in darkness, desolation, despair everything dreadful beginning with d; but the paradise was eo delicious an abode, that although as angel with a flaming sword, in the shape of conscience, was always standing at the gate, Lord Mallow would not be thrust out. He remained; in defiance of conscience, and honor, and all those good sentiments that should have counseled his speedy departure.

CHAPTER XVI. "They are the most curious pair of lovers I ever saw In my life," said one of the visitors at Ashbourne, a young lady who had been engaged to be married more than once, and might fairly consider herself an authority upon such matters. "One never sees them together." "They are cousins," replied her companion. "What can you expect from a courtship between cousins It must be the most humdrum affair possible." Lord Malow and Lady Mabel had been disputing about the Round Towers. ' Of course you are right," said the Irishman, when she hud triumphantly exhibited a page which supported her side of the argument "What a wonderful memory you have! What a wife you would make for a statesman! You would be worth half a dozen secretaries." Mabel blushed, and smiled faintly, with lowered eyelids. "Do you remember that concluding picture in 'My . Novel, " she asked, "where Violante tempts Harley Lestrange from his idle musing over Horace to toll through blue books; and, when she Is stealing softly from the room, he detains her and bids her copy an extract from him 'Do you think I would go through thi3 labor,' he says, 'if you were not to have the success? Halve the labor as well.' I have always envied Violante that moment in her life." "And who would not envy Harley such a wife as Violante," returned Lord Mallow, "if she was like the woman I pictured her?" Three hours later Lord Mallow and Lady Mabel met by accident in the garden. Lord Malow had never felt so idle In the whole course of his vigorous young life. "I don't know what has come to me." he said to himself; "I can't settle to any kind of work; and I don't care a straw for going sight-seeing with a pack of nonentities " A party had gone off in a drag soon after breakfast to see some distant ruins; and Lord Malow had refused to be of that party, though it included some of the prettiest girls in Ashbourne. He had stayed at home on pretense of writing important letters, but had not so far penned a line. An hour or so after luncheon he strolled out into the garden, having given up all idea of writing those letters. There was a wide lawn that sloped from the terrace front of the drawing-room window, a lawn encircled by a belt of carefully chosen timber. It was not very old timber, but it was sufficiently umbrageous. There were shrubs of every kind, and winding paths under tho trees, and rustic benches 1 ere and there to repose the wearied traveler. On ono of these benches, placed In a delicious spot, shaded by a group of pines, commandidg the wide view of valley and distant hill far away toward Ringwood, Lord Mallow found Lad? Mabel seated reading. She was looking delightfully cool amidst the sultry heat of the scerae, perfectly dressed in soft white muslin, with much adornment of delicate lace and pale hued ribbon; but she was not looking happy. She was gazing at the open volume on her knee with fixed and dreamy eyes and saw not the page; and as Lord Mallow came very near, with steps that made no sound on the fallen pineneedles, he saw that there were tears upon her drooping eyelids. There are moments in every maü's life when impulse is stronger than discretion. Lord Mallow gao the reins to impulse low and seated himself by Lady Mabel's side and took her hand in his with an air of sympathy so real that the lidy forgot to be offended. "Forgive- me for having surprised your tears," he murmured gently. "I am, very foolish," she said, blush-' ing deeply as she became aware of the hand clasping hers, and suddenly withdrawing her own; "but there are passages of Dante that are too pathetic." "Oh, it was Dante!" exclaimed Lord Mallow, with a disappointed air. He looked down on tho page on her lap. "Yes, naturally." She had been reading about Paolo and Lord Mallow leaned down and read the lines in a low voice, slowly, with considerable feeling; and then ho looked oftly up at Mabel Ashbourne, and at the landscape lying below them, in all the glow and glory of the Summer light, and looked back to the lady, with hir hand still on the book. The strangeness of the situation; they two alone in the garden, unseen, unhcaded by human eye or ear; the open book between them subtle bond of union hinting at forbidden passion. "They were deeply to bo pitied," said Lord Mallow, meaning the guilty lovers. "It w.is very sad," murmured Lady Mabel. "But they were neither tho first nor the last who have found out too late that they were created to be happy In each other's love, and had by accident missed that supreme chance of happiness," said Lord Mallow, with veiled intention. Mabel sighed and took the book from the gentleman's hand and drew a little further off on the bench. She was not the kind of young woman to yield tremblingly to the first whisDcc

of love, taccesca had lived so long ago, in the days so entirely mediaeval, that one could afford to regard her with indulgent pity. But it was not to be supposed that a modern duke's daughter was1 going to follow that unfortunate young woman's example and break plighted vows. Bethrothal, in the eyes of so exalted a moralist as Lady Mabel, was a tie but one degree less sacred than marriage. "Why did you not go to see the ruins?" fche asked, resuming her society tone. "Because I was In a humor in which ruln3 would have been unutterably odious." "Has the result of the session disappointed you?" "Naturally. When was that ever otherwise? Parliament opens full of promise. And the session comes to an end; and lo! a great many good things have been talked about and no good thing has been done. That i3 in the nature of things. No, Lady Mabel, it is not that which makes me unhappy." He waited for her to ask him what his trouble was, but she kept silent. "No," he repeated, "it io not that." Again there was no reply; and he went on awkwardly, like an actor who had missed his cue. "Since I have known you I have been at once too happy and too wretched. Happy unspeakably happy in your society; miserable in the knowledge that I could never be more than a unit in the crowd." "You were a great deal more to me than that," said Mabel, softy. She had been on her guard against him just now, but when he thus abused himself before her she took pity upon him, and became dangerously amiable. "I shall never forget your kindness about those wretched verses." (To be Continued.)

A NET KIND TO HIM, And lie raid Dearly for' Good Sample of It. "Years and years ago, when I was a bad man," said the reformer, "I was knock ins a bout the State of Kansas and heard of a wealthy farmer w,ho always kept his money iu his house. It was In my line of business to relieve him of it. I spent a month preparing the plans and then started out to do business. Ou the. way to the farmer's I held up a traveler and took $200 off of him. An hour later I had effected entrance Into the house and was spooking about when some one suddenly grabbed me, and two minutes later I was bound hand and foot. It was the old farmer bimself that got me, and after he had looked me over he said: "My son. this is bad business." "I was driven to It by poverty," I replied. "Yon should have depended upon the Lord to set you through. I am afraid you have little reverence for Christianity, and I shall pray with you." "Thereupon he knelt beside me and held forth for two-mortal hours without a break. When he finally let up he asked if I felt as sinful as before. I gladly replied that I didu't, whereupon he proceeded to go through nie and rob nie clear down to the key of my trunk. When he had finished he unbound me and aid: "I am glad you come. I think I have done you good. In fact, if you will come back a second time I believe you will see your way clear to becoming one of na." "He had $3G0 of my money, but I never went back for It. I have often wondered over the affair, however. I thought I know all kinds of religions by name, at least, but one that permitted a man to pray over a robber for two hours and then do him out of his last copper wn a new one i n me." AMID A SEA OF SHARKS. Projfrr-N of Yeanel - Delayed bj Myrlatla of the Monnteri. When a ship U brought to a standstill for twenty-four hours by a school o? sharks that extends in all directions to the horizon and when the vessel all for the next twenty days amid nothing but sharks it is said by old salts that it oromises to be a good season for fishing. ThLs is the story brought to Phla delptn by the captain of the American ship Babcock, from San Francisco, with a cargo of scrap Iron. In fact, the captain hints at a tragedy, for, according to his story, the myriad of 6harks left him in pursuit of another vessel. The Babcock sailed from San Fran Cisco Nov. 21. When Iu latitude 5.23 north, longitude 29 west, oa Dec. 10, the crew became worried at the scores of sharks which began following the vessel. During the night the crew Iward an awful splashing about tht! ship and with the morning light came ti.e revelation that the ocean as far as the eye could see was covered with sharks. The breeze fell off and what remained was not sufficient to send the vessel through the mass of fish.. A strong wind came after the vessel had been stranded amid the sharks for twentyfour hours and slow headw.y was possible. The captain depies that the 6harks tried to reach the deck by climbing upon, the backs of one another. For twenty day tho sailors cvn'd see nothing but sharks. They were hundreds of miles from any land and were getting thoroughly frightened, when along comes another vessel. The sharks saw that the newcomer had the most men aboard and all went off In her trail, so that when New Year's day dawned the crew of the Babcock again saw a clear ocean. Philadelphia Inquirer. Didn't I.Ike he Job. "Yes, he got a little fresh and I told him plainly that I knew my business, and added that I was proud of the fact that I am a self-made man. "What did he say to that?" "He said I made a mistake in not advertising for bids." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Bumper." Thft word "bumper," meaning a drinking vessel, derived ls origin from the Roman Catholic religion. It was the custom In England in ancient times to drink the health of the Pope after dinner in a full glass of wine. This was called "au bon pere," from which we have the contraction "bumper." Pleanant for Clarence. The sharp, penetrating voice of the young woman's mother rang out oa the still night air. "Marie, come in the hoifse this minute! Haven't I told you " "Mamma," interrupted an equally sharp voice, appearing to come from somewhere on the iront porch, 'this isn't Jack ! This is Clarence !" Sixteen out of the twenty-one English coronations that took place between William II. and Elizabeth, both inclusive, were held on a Sunday.

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Wnnhilay llelpn. In w inter add a larg handful of salt lo tho rinse water, and the clothes will rot freeze while hanging them out. When ready to go out, wet the hands well with vinegar. Let it dry on, and you will have no cold fingers. To clean fabrics two good-sized potatoes are grated into a pint of water, savs the Woman's Home Companion. Then they are strained through a coarse sieve into another vessel containing a pint of clear water, and allowed to stand until thoroughly settled. The clear solution i? poured off and ued to sponge fine materials, which are afterward washed with clean water, dried and ironed. After washing delicate white waists npply boiled starch, and hang until very. dry. When ready to Iron, wring out in hot water and put through a wringer. They will not stick and will look sheer and fine. To wash pongee silk do not wring It, but let it drip dry. Iron with a moder-atcl-hot iron when very dry. Do not sprinkle at all. Pointer for lluabnndi. When you have married your wife, you would think you were got upon a hilltop, and might begin to go downward by an easy slope. But you have Duly ended courting to begin marriage. Falling in love and winning love are often difficult tasks to overbearing and rebellious f-pirits; but to keep in love Is also a business of some importance, to w hich both man and wife must bring kindness and goodwill. The true love story commences at the alUr, when there lies lefore the married pair a most beautiful contest of wisdom and generosity, and a life-long struggle toward an unattainable ideal. Unattainable? Aye, surely unattainable, from the very fact that tiny are two Instead of one. IX. L. Stevenson. Dlonste of Cloth, Silk or Silin. Various materials could be used with good effect for the blouse shown in the cut. Tht model was of amethyst liberty satin, to be worn with a broadcloth suit in cloth of the same color. The rever was of velvet of a slightly darker shade, and there was a smart little cravat of the same velvet at the base of the collar. The bodice had a tucked border and was trimmed with narrow round silk cord of the same shade applied as pictured. Passementerie button.-? were also used in trimming, the vest and under sleeves being of French batiste and Irish lace. Keep Tablecloth Unmarked. I find the most practical way to prevent hot dishes from marking your dining room table is to get a piece of table oilcloth, cut the size of your table, either round or square, put under your pad, and then your cloth on. And where a hot dbh is placed on the table, you are sure there will be no mark. If nt times you have to enlarge your table have the oilcloth split through the center, and that way it can be slipped to the clids and afford protection where most needed. Comfort IMIlovm. Soft little silk-covered pillows just a wee bit larger than baby pillows, that have removable slips of fine linen, handembroidered In a dainty eyelet design, and with torchon lace inset, cost $2.1)5 each, and afford much relief ami comfort to a restless ierson, a.s they are Jut the size to tuck under some corner of shoulder or back that the large pillow cannot each. They are also nice for tho head when napping on a lounge or in a chair. ' Colored Storking. For house wear this winter colored stockings will Ik more in vogue than ever; indeed, the all-black stocking except to complete a black toilet is quite out of favor. These colored stockings may le worn with slippers to match or are much used with black patent leather pumps. One of the new tones that is having its run just now on the 'hosiery counters is ox-blood red. It is quite effective when ieeping out from under a white house frock above white leather pumps. To Slake Sickbed. In changing the sheets on an invalid's bed place the patient on one side of the bed and roll one-half of bottom sheet toward the patient; spread clean sheet on half of ied, just uncovered, smooth toward patient, and roll patient on clean sheet. Now remove soiled sheet entirely, and finish spreading clean one. In following these directions the patient does not have to be removed to another iK-d or lifted. The ew M-jITh. Some of the 'new inuff.s look as if they had been picked up from the floor where they hail served for nu5 und been thrown over the hands. The fox muffs especially give one this feeling. Heads and tails Invariably finish them. They are big, fiat and as deficient in contour as the skins can be made. Flower on Uvenlnjc Kowb. Flowers are leautlful when used in tho armholes of evening dresses, and this year roses, violets and forget-me-nots are having thing. their own way. The flowers make a iretty finish to a sleeve The Kitchen Floor. Grease stains on a kitchen floor are difficult to remove by ordinary means, but they will generally come out with

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a hot solution of potash. If one application is not enough use a second or even a third. Sometimes the solution, if the wood Is very white, will leave a yellowish stain. To avoid this, mix some lime with the solution until a thick paste is formed. Let the paste remain on the fjpor at least twelve hours. It is better to use a weak solution of sal soda and fuller's earth on very nice floors. The backward trimming continues to flourish. The shady, downward-turned brim still holds its own. v llandfuls of strange, soft-falling plumage are used in profusion in adoruing the smartest models. Flowers are a favorite trimming, pnd large buckles made of tinsel, galloon, drawn silk and velvet are some of the smartest touches. Smooth and rough felt, long-haired beaver hats bid fair to establish themselves in favor for winter wear. Vying with them are largs bate of velvet, the simpler ones trimmed with big bows of satin ribbon, the more decorative ones with handsome feathers. The little hat, say the prophets, is going to take on huge trimmings. Such models, Indeed, are already here and answer the difficult problems for women past their youth. Some hats of the kind come in blocked felts in small mushroom shapes, lifted silghtly from the head and trimmed at the front with big square bows centered with big buckles. The hats arc trig, of small expense, and go excellently with plain tailormades, and they are becoming to almost any one. Jet and bands embroidered ia colors are being used extensively . for tho front brims of turbans worn by matrons for dressy occasions, and they are also employed with excellent effect around high crowns of velvet or felt slupes. The jet and Oriental embroidered bands are worked on net with, in both cases, a mixture of coarse floss embroidery, The bands embroidered in color brighten up dull toned suits. Children's Hendipear. Quaint styles in children's headgear now occupy the place of prominence. Among tho picturesque effects one ses the poke tonnet In a dozen different guises. A very lovely one is made of a white felt hat having a semi-circle cut In the rim and turned over the top. which has been previously secured to a wire crown. ' A wide niching of frilled lace fills in the scooped part, while rosettes of lace and tiny clusters of rosebuds decorate tho top. . The same trimming I repeated where the ties are attached to the bonnet and again near the ends of the ties. To Tent Flour. If yo:.r flour U white with a yellowish straw color it is good; while if it has a bluish cast, or black specks in, it is the opposi'e. Flour can only be tested by its adhesiveness wet and knead a little of It between the fingers. If It works soft and sticky it is poor. If a little flour Ls thrown against a dry, smooth surface and it falls like Xowder, you may know that it is not of the best quality. If flour squeezed in the hand retains the shape given it when the hand is relaxed It is a good sign. Cleaning Object of Aluminum. To rdestore luster to tarnished aluminum it is sufficient, says the Scientific American, to immerse it in water slightly acidulated with sulphuric acid. To small articles of aluminum a soft brush may be applied. For the bath, water with a little carbonate of soda will suffice. t For Cblil In the Client. Common mustard used as a plaster or poultice is the best cure for a cold on the chest, and the white of an cjg with sugar is the finest nedicine for hoarseness. To cure a burn an application of tho white skin that lines the shell of an egg is unbeatable, while the raw yolk is a capital tonic Sew and stunning gown combinations are of dead old rose and dull blue.; Pond lilies in gold and bronze green are used for the coiffure decorations. New smart patent leather shoes have strqwd black and white cloth tops. Yellow chamois moccasins for bedroom wear, beaded in pmk, blue, and white, are prett Iilack furs will have a strong vogue, mink and sealskin having increased so tremendously In cost. Knnine takes a new frenk in a hat of the big bell mushroom order. The fur forms the steep, sloping brim, which 13 wide. Pony coats and boa coats have long sleeves and narrow shuwl collars; the half fit teil coats are of hip, threequarter, and full length. Whole skins are used in handsome neck piews, so arranged that they cross at the back, and often one single animal is used for the neckpiece. Neck plec and muffs are trimme! with L'unerous heads and tails. The heads are softer and more natural in their mounting than they have been of recent years. Hand embroideries are used i .ore than ever on elaborate toilets; the work is of the finest, and, in response to the

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Girl's Coat. Long loose coats make becoming wraps for growing girls and are to be noted In a variety of attractive colors and materials. This one is adapted both to cheviot, boniesnuns and similar rough finished cloths and to the somewhat more dressy plain ones, but in this insiance is made of Copenhagen blue broadcloth with black sill braid ns a finish. The color is one of the new )nes and the braid is a feature of the season so that the little coat is as smart a one as well could be found, but more sturdy, serviceable wraps are sure to be needed during the season, and mixtures and herringbone cheviots are in the height of style. For shorter length the coat is cut off on indicated lines. The above pattern will be mailed to your address on receipt of 10 cents. Send all orders to the Pattern Department of this paper. Be sure to vive both the number and size of pattern wanted, and write very plainly. For convenience, write your order on the following coupon: Order Coupon. Xo. 5S13. SIZE , NAME , at ADDRESS Child Romper. Wise mothers provide their little ones with garments as this one that can be slipped on either over the frock or over the underclothing, and which allow absolutely free and untroubled movement, leaving the child to be happy to its heart's content, and the mother free "from annoying considerations of spoiled or soiled clothing. The rompers in this instance are made of checked gingham trimmed with white, but linen, chambray, and all sturdy materials of the sort, are appropriate. For the boys khaki cloth often is used, giving a distinctly masculine effect that is apt to be appreciated at even any early age. The above pattern will be mailed to your address on receipt of 10 cents. Send all orders to the Pattern Department of this paper. Be sure to give both the number and si2e of pattern wanted, and write very plainly. Order Coupon. Xo. 57J8. SIZE NAME ADDRESS Unfamiliar Facts. The melancholy always have dark eyes. The English do not much like tomatoes. The racoon washes Its food before eating it. London averages but eighteen murders a year. There are 19 American colleges with an enrollment of more than 0,000 students each. Payment of interest given as gro.i obstacle to starting postal savings banks by government. Annual statement of Standard Oil Company of Xew Jersey showed total surplus to be $201,000.000. There Is one good thing that men are always willing to give away: a good joke on the other fellow. During a thunder storm a remarkable incident happened at a house uear Deal, the lightning imprinting a perfect photograph of a fiower-vase on a mirror before which it stood. Since 1SIX), when the Grand Army of the Republic had 400,489 members enrolled, its numerical strength has been cut down almost one-half. There are only about 212,000 comrades now. The losses by death run up to 0,000 or 10.000 a year. The State of Washington has a new law which hits the trading stamp hard, though It Is to be fought In the courts a? unconstitutional. It requires that all establishments giving away trading stamps Khali place a cash value on them and stand ready to redeem them at any time.

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OFFICER 13 HUMILIATED. Deputy Sheriff In Held Up by Bey for Trenn! ii sr. Deputy 'Sheriff Charles Xelson's' Bt&r does Dot shine as brightly as of yore. It luster has been dimmed. He has been held up and by a boy. It happened because Nelson decided to do a little rabbit shooting near Madison on the side whil serving papers. He chased a rabbit into a brush pile on the farm of Sylvester Thomas. A negro helped remove the brush until the rabbit was frightened out and shot. Then the negro refused to assist in putting the brush back. Defore Nelson could ct uway, (Juy, the son of Sylvester Thomas, attracted by the Fhootirg, appeared and ordered the brush replaced. Nelson tried to buy him off by offering the rabbit, but it was useless. It took him two hours to replace the brush.

FIRST CHURCH AT GABY. It Will Be Erected by EpIcopa'Jaa at a Cost , of $20,OGO. As the result of a mectingof the missionary board of the diocese of the Episcopal church, held in the office of Albert G. Harlan in outh Itcnd and presided over by Itishop John Ilazcn White of Michigan City, the Episcopal church will have the distinction of erecting the finst church at Gary. A proposition made by the United States Steel Company ot Gary, offering four lots, centrally located, as a church site, was accepted. The steel company will also contribute largely toward the erection of thechurch. An edifice to cost about $20,000 will be erected. Ground will be broken in the spripg. CHOKED WHILE EATING CANDY. Boy' Stealthy Aet and Subneqoeat Accident Breaks Up School. While John Hartley was surreptitiously eating candy in the school room in Maacie, a piece lodged in his throat and be the teacher, tried in vain to dislodge the obstruction and children were hurriedly sent for physicians. The mother of the boy was called. The mother was the first to arrive, and she removed the danger by poking her finger down the boy's throat. Ey this time physicians began arriving in automobiles and carriages.' The school was broken up for the afternoon. FATALLY HURT UNDER THAIS. Alleged Wife Denerter Forfeit Bait Bond 111 Father Signed. Claude Davis, aged brought to Bedford on a charge of doserting hia wife and .1 r i , l " iure cuiiurvu, uiirr piviug uoou iur ais appearance at trial, jumped his bond,, which lis father furnished. He fell beneath a train on the Indianapolis Southern railroad, losing one leg, and sustaining otbsr injuries which are pronounced fatal., CREMATED EI HIS BARU". Zaeharla Wed dell Lc Life Walle? Savins Live Stock. Zacharias Weddell, a wealthy farmer of Benton townsh:p, is supposed to ha bt-en cremated in his barn while he was attempting to save his horses and cattle. Two horses were burned at the Käme time. He was last seen entering the burning? structure. WeddoII leaves a wife and four smajl children. The family is a leading one. Many Indiana Mine Closed. The demand for coal in this State has been falling off the last few days. The Brazil Block Coal Company has only one mine at work. Similar reports come from the bituminous district. This is the first time in many years at this season that the companies have closed even temporarily any f the larg mines in this district. Killed a Her Father Waa. fi T.!n!o fss-tiiilt r arnl TC u.-ni rnn dewn by the Pennsylvania flyer near Schereville at a street crossing und killed instantly. Two j-ears ago this month ber father, Henry Schultz, a wealthy Ktock buyer, was killed by the same train at th same crossing. Tweaty Hart la Crash. Twenty persons on a Chicago, South Bond and Northern Indiana railway car were seriously injured when a baggagw car crashed into the passenger coach. The wreck occurred lctwecn South Bend and Mishawaka. Salelde at Xobleavllle. Miss Clara Albright. 17, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. She has a widowed mother in Pcrkinsville, but has been employed as a domestic in the home of David House in Noblcsville for a year. No cause is ss-gned for the act. Two Men Killed by Train. Mathew James of Medora .and John Wade of Fort I'itner were killed by av Monon freight at Mitchell as they were walking on the track. Gored to Death by Ball. Domer Swinehamp, a young man of 1!9 years, , was gored to death by a ball near Jasonville. WITHIN OUR BORDERS. At Peru John Savage, IG years old, was fatally hurt by the accidental discharge of a gun in the bands of his elder brother. The boys were hunting at the time or the accident. ' George P. Nickels, jK)stmasOr at Bye. N. Y-, was arrested in Indianapolis and confessed to embezzling $2,tKX) from the Bye postoffice on Nov. 11. He had but Z cents when arrested. He s 47 years old and married. Thomas Welsh, who headed a crotrd of young men at Mitchell ia a disorderly street parade, was tihot and killed by Marshal Frank Dale for making an attack on the officer who tried to disperse tho crowd. Dale had but recently taken the office of marshal, relieving Bnoch Cheek, who elso killed a man a year ago while making an arrest. Bev. William i;aiton Tarker, 81, Christian minister, ended his life in the canal in Goshen. He was Keen by a woman oa, the opposite bank to wade in and lot himself down by some willow twigs after laying his hat and overcoat on the bank. He hung by the willows and drowned himself iu two feet of water. The lody was recovered. He recently complained of pa. is in his head. A note in his overcoat pocket said: "I have no ill feeling; against any one. I have full faith in God that He will accept me. I have been honest in my dealings all my life." He bad been traveling for the Christian publishing house of Dayton, Ohio. Broken hearted becanse her mates had been shipped to New York for the winter, lei'vlrg her alone, Queen, a valuable trainel elephant, owned by Col. Benjamin E. Wallace, died at Peru. Quen began to mc:e the day after the other elephactt were taken away. She fell into a gradual decline, and all efforts to cheer her up fniled. Ilcr death was a surprise to her keier, who had diagnosed ber trouble, but did not drcaia it would be fatal. Queen's death means a loss to her owner ot approximately $15,000. While huatin; near Evansville Dr. P. D. Weil of Hot Springs, Ark., accidentally shot himself. Bis right shoulder was torn away. He will probably die.