Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 19, Plymouth, Marshall County, 13 February 1908 — Page 3

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8 A CROWN o o o tOCGOOCOCOCCCOOCeO When Lionel stood in the street, lookmg up at the gloomy sky, and Lesitatins about an umbrella. Mrs. Clayton came Into the porch and signed to him with uplifted -x-iger. Mr. Leigh, not a word, please, about that curloard door. You see. if they get tales of ghosts about, it will injure the sale of the business, if my husband wishes to part with it, which he may do." "I will not say a word, Mrs. Clayton." And Lionel went his way. The rain kept off. There was a warm though blustering -wind, and he decided to walk the two miles to Woodmancote village, and to Wycherly Hall, which last old mansion was his destination that day. Three times a week, between the hour3 of eleven nd one, Lionel Leigh, professor of languages, gave a lesson ia German to Ella Wycherly, only child and sole heiress of Colonel Wycherly, of Wycherly Hall. Nearly always there sat in the room an English lady, called Worthington, a tall, taunt, pale person, of middle age. Such a, rattiepate as Richard Harrington would tar spoken of this lady as high in bene an spare in flesh, a blue stocking of the lluest, a spinster of the sour order. Lionel Leigh was not of that stamp. He never mocked at what was faded, and sad, and joyless; but b had not an atom of liking for Miss Worthington. An atmosphere of cold opposition to him and Iiis every word, and look, and unspoken thought, pervaded that lady's whole being. She seemed to move and breathe in frosty air. Lloinel Leigh entered the Wycherly Woods. They were wide and rich, picturesque and lovely in summer and autumn; but now, la the late November, the trees were nearly stripped, the birds had flown to the south; and, as Lionel strode over the dead leaves and listened to the wind sighing and rocking the branches high above his head, it seemed to him that he was treading oa the graves of dead hopes, and that the grand old Wycherly Wood wasa great cathedral, where a requiem was chanted by choirs of spirits. Suddenly he heard steps steps which set his heart beating, his blood rushing through his veins, and tingling at his finger ends, and then came fear, and the wish to escape and hide that incomprehensible cowardice of first love before it Is sure of its object. Down the steps, coming to meet him, with smiling lips and outstretched band, and the haunting eyes shining with a warm, soft light which did not always dwell in their depths fjr they could flash with scorn, and cloud with pride, 'end sparkle with mockery Ella Wycherly advanced to the sward close to Lionel, and positively her hand was placed ia his her small, ungloved hand it was t first time, the very first time, that he had so held it. Mr. Leigh, no lesson to-day, please. Mamma has one of her dreadful headaches; she is very ill.4 Tapa is with ler. and Dr. Dundas, and Miss Worthington." She was pulling to pieces a little twig plucked off a bush as she spoke, and lookin; at the grass. To say that Ella Wycherly was beautiful does not express the charm, the grace, the fascination of her manner does not impress one with an idea of the wonderful sweetness of her voice. It was a beautiful face, with a bloom, a delicacy, a softness of complexion seldom equaled, with an exquisite Jnouth, and small, pearly, glittering teeth, with the daintiest of little noses, with the loveliest eys and eyelashes, and dark eyes, black in shadow. Then dark-brown hair was wreathed about the small, superb head in many folded plaits. She wore a green cloth costume, a hat and feather c-f the same. "I will walk through the woods with you. Mr. Leigh," she said, "and I will take you to my own little summer house. I have one that was built purposely for me when I was a child. I used to keep my dolls houses there; now I keep books my favorite books; and I have a lUtle piano. I have a Ere lighted there every day all through the winter, whether I go there or not. Will you comeV" Lionel bowed, and muttered something, he did not know what. He seemed to tread on, air: and while he wilke.1 now over the fallen leaves with . ihi? young enchantress by his side, it sounded to him as if the winds amongst the topmost bows had tuned their voices to a heavenly melody, and were singing of hope and ecstasy, a future paved with ?oM and 6trewn with roses. Ella walked along silently. Her dark eyes were .mi the fallen leaves. Glancing sideways at her, ijonei perceived that they glittered with tears, and that the corners of the sweet month tremb'ed. "I have one question to ask jou, Mr. Iigh," said the heiress suddenly. CHAPTER III. A question. Miss Wycherly?" Lionel asked this in trembling accent, with quivering lip, with color surging hotly ou his cheek. Ella's eyes were s:il on th fallen leaves. It was a moment or go before she spoke, then she said: "I wish to know If you like aly?" He started at the abruptness, and Inappropriateness of the question. Was the heiress laughing at him? Had she detoc:ed ba mad passion? and was she fooling him with a young girl's incipient ciuetry? "Italy, Miss Wycherly? It Is the iand of the past, of romance, and inasic, and art, and the language itself is melody, the climate almost one long summer time. Yes, I love Italy ; it is not my mture to do things by halves." "Oh !" she said, "the climate, the scenery, and everything there is delightful? Well, I am glad; for a certain reason. A friend of mine, a dear dearest friend is going there in twelve months f ram ill date." She raised her black eyes no from the fallen leaves. Their light flasheu mercilessly upon Lionel's face and there was surely a mischievous twinkle in them. "This friend," she went on, looking down again demurely at the leaves, is almost ever present in my thoughts; and my interest in this friend Is intense, Mr. Leisch intense ! "That friend Is fortunate, Miss Wycherly." . "The most the most miserable wretch on this wide earth, at this v?ry moment. Ah !" she said, breaking into plca3ant laugh ; "I am making you wonder ar.d stare, Mr. Leigh, i delight ia astonish ing people, shock le, starring them out 01 tneir t think me a' to day, Mr. Lei' all about it, i It seemed stood still foi madly as if it It was a cai against cruel Had h net r fs, making them woman ! Some I shall icll you y. very much ; that his heart at ; then bounded iving to get awa;. beating its wings He d:rej not speak. to become a party to Dick Barrington's love-making only In? previous nigt? And here was an heiress, an enormously rich and exquisitely lovely creature of seventeen ; and he loved her madly ; and he was walking In n. lonely wood with her, and she had told him that she liked him very much! "The reasons I have for liking you, Mr. Leigh, are manifold; but. I will give you two. You are good-looking ; you are goodnatured. There is the summer house," she said, pointing upwards toward some steps, roughly hewn in the side of a steep hank, which sloped downwards to that part of the wood. "Mount those steps. We shall be in the su.iuner house In five minutes. Go on first."

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And Lionel obeyed. He felt like one in a dream. He could not believe that he was awake, and alive, and in his senses! and yet that Ella Wycherly, the idol worshiped in the deepest deep of his heart, the shrined goddess of his adoration, the being to be- loved at a distance, never addressed familiarly, never approached as an equal; that Ella Wycherly was with him alone, talking to him kindly, never measuring the measureless distance that separated them, with so much as one glance of hauteur, or one cold, conde scending word. Alone with Ella Wycherly in her sum mer house ! What a charming room it vas! There was a bay-window looking south over the park, and the undulating country beyond; a lovely landscape in summer, and even now, faded and gray as were the woods and downs. There were farm stacks, and red tiles, and a tall church spire, and the thatched roofs of cottages, gleaming in the pale sunshine, and dotting the scene with color. "Sit down, Mr. Leigh," said Ella, sinking, irto a chair and taking off her hat. What vould M ss Worthington say if she saw us now?" ' "Miss Wycherly, if I thought for a moment that you compromised yourself by this condescensicn "Please do hold your peace!" said Ella; "dn't let us have a word of the sort. I am afraid you think me an unladylike young lady, Mr. Leigh?" "No." "When you understand me better, sir, you will find me honest and truthful and feminine enough, in all conscience. You are so true a gentleman, sir so highminded, that there Is no need for poor little me to assert my dignity. I feel as if you were my wise elder brother, Mr. Leigh." "You have no brother. Miss Wycherly?" "No brother, and no sister. I am alone alone alone !" There was pathos, there was passion in the young woman's voice, and there were in her eyes tears, which sparkled in the faint sunshine that came in at the baywindow. "Alone with parents, with wealth, with friends." 'I have no friends." Lionel looked his amazement. Was this beautiful girl fooling him, or were there truth and sorrow in the tbnes of her voice? That sweet voice had sunk to a minor key. She clasped her hands tightly, and turned her fine face, aglow with a strange excitement, toward the wide bay-window and that landscape, warmed by the fleeting November sunshine. "I have a great mind to make a confidant of you, Mr. Leigh shall I? Tell me, has mamma ever waxed at all the very least con5dential with you?" "Never once. Miss Wycherly. "She may; she may tell you a secret some day; if she docs" coming close to him, and placing a slight hand on each of his shoulders, so that she could look into his eyes "if she does, tell me." "I will, indeed." He trembled under her touch. lie would have forfeited ten kingdoms, ten crowns for the bliss of holding her one instant just one instant against his heart, and pressing one, only one, kiss upon the red, beautiful lips; but he restrained himself. Suddenly they heard steps, quick and impatient, outside, and the door burst open unceremoniously. Miss Worthington, with her gold eye-glass, a large hat on her head, came, toward the table and the remains of the little luncheon. She stood still, and stared at Lionel Leigh. "This is not the way to gain recommendations, sir, from one family to another. I think I must hint to you that Miss Wycherly will discontinue her German lessons." "I shall not I" cried Ella decidedly ; "I shall continue to learn German." "Ficm a lady," said Miss Worthington. "No; from Mr. Leigh. I like Mr. I.eigh. Miss Worthington." "Miss Wycherly, return to the house. I wish to speak privately to this gentleman ." Ella Wycherly turned her face toward the door, her back upon Miss Worthington; but she did not run down the steps immediately. "Do not scold Mr. l '-igh," she said. "I met him I made him come here.", "I am grieved. Miss Wycherly," cried Lionel, "that ' I took advantage of your kindness, if my doing so has caused blame f. fall upon you." Then, turning toward tie stony face, sheltered by the great hat, l.e continued: "Miss Worthington, I apologize most humbly to Miss Wycherly, to you, to " The English governess interrupted him with a wave of her hand. "If you please, Mr. Leigh, we will discuss this when that young lady is gone is absent. Ella, go! Sir," she said to Lionel, "I d not think any explanation you can offer will justify your conduct this morning. I take upon myself, sir, to inform you that your services as German masfer will no longer be required at Wycherly Hall." Lionel bowed, took his hat, and walked away. CIIAPTEn IV. . Ella Wycherly did not go to the house. She wandered about in the wood, and then took the road to the park, and found herself at length before those immense iron gates, with the picturesque 'odg.j to her right, which in summer time was smothered in roses and honeysuckle. Between the bars she saw the ploughed-up muddy road, the highway of late November. Opposite was a high, thici hawthorn hedge, bare as the jvinds could strip it. She heard the roll and rumble of wheels, and the tramp of horses' feet. She grasped the iron with hei small gloved hands, and looked steadily into the lane. A dog cart, with two gentlemen seated ia front, and a groom wih folded arms perched behind, drove up. The driver lifted his hat to Ella. The heiress flushed a little, nodded pieastatly, and a tall old man came out of tlis picturesque lodge, and opened the eaormuus gates. The trap rolled in, the driver Ieajed down. The cider gentleman raained seated. He lifted Lis hat to Miss Wycherly. "My old friend," he called out, smiMng and showing a fine row of white false teeth, "the gout, Miss Wycherly, prevents my walking." So the groom took the reins, the dog cart rolled on, and Ella found herself escorting a handsome young man along the wide drive. He was a fair young gentleman, with pale gold mustache end crisp brown hair, slender, stalwart, cristocratic, with a pleasant smile, and a pleaiant voice, and pleasant blue eyes, id", and bright, and glancing. ' I am the bearer of an invitation to Cclonel and Mrs. Wycherly and yourself. Miss Wycherly. My uncle yonder is going to give a great ball on the seventh of next month. I have been urging him to bid all his friends and neighbors to a merry-making. At last I have succeeded. Cards of invitation have? been issued on all sides, or will be issued. Only, as we are such near neighbors, and since the colonel is so exclusive, something told me that if the formal invite were sent, we would receive as formal a denial ; so I persuaded the earl to let me drive him up, and we are going to enter the lion's d-?n. Excuse me, I only mean that the carl and I will kneel and sue to the colonel, and

entreat him to allow you to come to Calthorpe oa the ninth." "Kneel, Mr. Calthorpe; you forget th gout. The earl's old friend will no more allow him to J.neel to the colonel than the colonel will allow me to attend the ball." "Miss Wycherly, we must Lave you at Calthorpe: if the colonel says no, have a headache, retire to rest. lock the door, then dress, and having thrown a cloak over your ballroom splendor, open the door, steal down stairs and fir.d your way into the grounds. I will meet you under that great chestnut close to the servants' hall ; and I will conduct you to the door which opens into Wood Lane. There I will have a carriage waiting, and a lady chaperon, who will enter the ballroom with you, and look strictly after the etiquette, and so oa; and then won't you enjoy yourself! Have you ever been to a ball?" "Never," said Elle, making a funny little grimace. "One day I told mamma I should love to go to a ball, and she clasped her hands and said, 'Never, my child.' " (To be continued.)

TO MAKE MINES SAFER. Government Will Conduct Experiment Concerning ICipIoul ve. Scientific study of tU causes of mine disasters has been undertaken by the fuel 'division of the geological survey in the hope that the great loss of life in the mines of this country may be abated, says the New York Herald. Clarence Hall, an explosive expert, has returned from a trip to England and Belgium, where mine' owners, miners, the government and the manufacturers of explosives cooperative in an effort of explosives co-operate in an effort to prevent explosions. Experiments there show that many accidents are due to coal dust rather than gas. Plans have been made by the fuel division to erect, probably near Pittsburg, a uuiuue experiment station where tests will be made of various dynamites and blasting powders for the purpose of accurately determining their batety in tue presence of deadly firedamp and coal gas. Explosives will be hurled from a mortar into a large steel boiler plate 100 feet long and G feet in diameter, charged with firedamp and air or coal dust and air. If ignition fails the explosives will he known as "iermissiblQ explosives." The mine operators of the country will be urged to use thein. Another branch of the experimental work will be conducted in a miniature coal mine. Miners will be there taught the noble art of savins the lives of their fellow men. Hundreds of lives could be saved in gas explosions were It possible for the rescue parties to enter Immediately following the accident. The menacing bank of firedamp, however, often holds the relief wori back for hours while the entombed miners slowly suffocate or helplessly await the approach of devouring llames. The government experts have found in Europe an apparatus which, when worn by members of a rescue party, permits them in safety to enter any place where there Is gas. It consists of a canvas Jacket equipped with cylinders of compressed oxygen, connected witb the operator's mouth by a flexible rub-ber-linetl metallic tube. The use of the oxygen Is regulated by a pressure gauge. The exhalation of the operator is passed through small lumps of potassium hydroxide, the carbon dioxide telns absorbed and the remaining products, together with more oxygen, Is again available for the operator. At present no apparatus of such a nature is known to be In the United States. If the exr ri.nents are satisfactory here, mine o rners will be urged to keep these Jackets in the mine and also above ground. The device will bo given a thorough test In the miniature mine, ia which there will be drifts, headings, rooms aud ladders. After it is, filled with smoke miners will be instructed to enter and search as they would for their fellow workmen. Officials of the geological survey Live been watching with considerable dismay for some time the frequently recurring accidents in different parts of the country- In eight accidents in West Virginia sli ce l'JOO 313 lives have been lost. The worst explosion that has occurred in Germany in the last few years was due to coal dust. Nearly 200 lives were lost In the Reden mines. Terhaps the greatest accident in many years occurred at the Courrieres mine at Pas do Calais, French, on March 10, 1006, when l,C0O lives were lost. This explosion was probably due to coal dust. Tlie Clsraretle In London. City men in London are charged with being too fond of "My Lady Nicotine." A physician, whose practice Is almost entirely among stock exchange men, considers that his clients arc as a rule worse offenders than any other class of professional or business men. 'It is rarely outside the city," he says, "that you will find the chronic smoker who persists In the abuse of the habit until nicotine saturation all but amounts to nicotine poisoning. You would find in my practice books the most frequent entry opiwslte the names of patients to' bo 'cigarette throat' or 'nicotine heart" "Cigarette smoking Is the drare drinking of smoking, the habit of 'nipping' between meals. I advise my patients to smoke once after meals and never continuously till after dinner in the evening. If smokers generally adopted this plan the worla might sleep on both ears, so far as 'My Lady Nicotine Is concerned. "Usually," continued this philosophically minded observer, "the old responsible Stock oroker Is a very careful liver. He is fond of 'curling a roseleaf round a good cigar, but he Is careful not to smoke Injuriously. It is the new fry during active times who habitually sport green cigars or the favorlta brand of cigarettes. The cigar is the barometer of prosperity, the cigarette the indication of pace the narcotic of restlessness. Among clerks and juniors the chief danger arises from the cheap cigarettes! The cigar, owing to the lack of business among the speculative fraternity, has long been abandoned with a muffled curse." Washington Post. Probable Caate of Death. "Goodness me!" exclaimed a man to a companion as they were walking. "Did you ever see such a wretched sight?" and he pointed to a poor, miserable looking horse that was tolling up the bill In the broiling sua with a heavy load behind It. Suddenly the animal fell and expired. "Well," said one as they ran up, "whatever made it die?" "Can't you Fee''" cried the other. "Why, the poor beast is so thin that the sun shone through his ribs and set the hay on fire that it had eaten, aud tha smoke choked it!" Australian Jewelers rent engagement rlnja to their customers.

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lledroom Ventilation. It goes without saying that the bedroori, according to Dr. WoikIs Hutchinson In the American Magazine, should bo well ventilated, especially in view of the heavy storing of oxygen in the tissues which goes on during sleep. All windows should be open from the top. at least one. and better two or three Inches, so that a gentle current of air can lo felt blowing across the face. It is just as pure and as wholesome as day air. Night fogs and rain are only injurious in so far as they frighten you into shutting your windows. No air that ever blew outdoors Is so dangerous or poisonous as that inside a bedroom with closed windows. The clothing should bo as light as consistent with warmth, the mattress elastic but firm, the pillows as high as the breadth of the shoulders, so that it will keep the neck ami head horizontal or slightly above when lying on the side. The good, hard common sense of humanity has solved all these problems, and the modern hair mattress or its equivalent, single pillow and blankets, or cheesecloth-covered "comforts." which can be cleaned and srrated by turning the. hose on it, can hardly be niuch improved on. Beyond these there is no virtue whatever In hard beds, flat or no pillows and cold bedrooms. The hoggy feather bed, collector of the inspiration and diseases of successive generations; the bolster, the eiderdown, quilt, the hard sailcloth-like counterpane, both airtight, and the latter heavy as a board, have gone to the attic or the ash heap, where they belong, with the four -poster aud its curtains, the nightcap and the warming pan. AVrnp Easily Made. A dainty wrap to wear over a party dress is made like this sketch of brilliant blue cloth with a collar and scarf of black satin. The collar is decorated with a band of white lace and a band of silver braid. The scarf laces through silver cord rings and ends in silver tassels. The cut of this garment Is siiur ply a long rectangular piece of cloth with a circular opening for the neck. American Girls. The average American girl Is blase almost before the English girl is ready to leave her school, says a writer In the American Word Magazine. The English girl never leaves her governess and home before she Is eighteen, while at the same age the American girl has seen much of the world. Yet thv American girl retains her vivacity and her interest In everything, and it is that one quality, I think, above all others, that wins for her the admiration of the English woman. The American woman never looks to her husband as master, while the English woman is taught to do so from her birth. How to Sit Gracefully. When sitting, says the Delineator, be pure that your hips are never brought farther forward than your shoulders. The proiter way is to get your hips as far back as possible in the chair and firmly settled there. Then you can imagine the tipper part of your body a stem,: swaying as it will. You can bend forward or sideways, but you will never want to bend back, and even if you grow to 1 stout, you will still look well when sitting; and If you want to lean back in a steamer chair you may even be graceful. Itemove Soot from Stove. In burning soft coal the so-t accumulates quickly in the lower part under the oven and prevents things from baking on the bottom. When I find that my oven fs not hot enough and baking as it should on the bottom, I leave the damper up, open the soot door, and put In a newspaper or two. and set fire to them. The draft caused by the burning of the paper blows the soot up the stove pipe. In a few tnlmrtes I have my oven p good baking order and thiugs are not sailed by the operation. Peacock blue, slate gray and a rich mahogany brown are three favorite shades of the season. Much of the ornatencss of the new veiling coats is In the lining, which usually has gold filet or gay galloons as a finish to the linings of white or lelicato colors. Cloth and net Is a favorite combination for waists that are to be worn vith the tailor suit. The blouse is usually of the net with bands of chiffon broadcloth. When the feathers on a hat have lost :heir "curl" through dampness or wet jy rain, hold the hat, feathers down, )ver a heated radiator or near a stove, ad the "curl" will return quickly. A dull gown may often be transferred, by just si touch of a different color, rhu bright yellow or dull pink will )fu-t. change the whole appearance of brown gown, while a little light blue jn purple lias a charming effect. Coats and skirts In striped velveteens 102 being very much worn. Some of

the newest tailor coats are being carried out In velvet, plain or striped and trimmed with wide strappings of cloth, to match the cloth of the skirt with which they are worn. Simplicity Is the kejnote of the hour, and the only trimming permissible on these tailor-mades, besides the braids and soutaches, which are .always in vogue, fs the quaint embroider', some of Egyptian design and coloring, which is seen in the waistcoat or appears in the collar and cuffs. The prettiest afternoon and evening dresses seen this season are those of mousseline, trimmed with cloth. Handed at the bottom aud trimmed lightly at the corsage, the effect is lovely. If lace ite used, filet is the best, and it should be dyed to match the others. Such a gown is not perishable, and may be worn by women of almost any age. In black it is wonderfully striking.

Health and Ileauty Hints. When a cut will not heal, saturate a piece of absorbent cotton with coal oil and bind on. Certain kinds of toothache can be relieved by painting the gums with a solution of one-half glycerin and one jf cloves. A weak solution of salt water snuffed up the nostrils will often break a cold that seems to have taken firm grip cn you. Sprains should be treated as quickly as possible with hot water, after which the part affected should be rubbed with liniment. Heat applied locally for neuralgic pains is very soothing and effective. It is best to have d hot-water bag always iu the house. If your feet get very cold when you are out, instead of stamping them, as is the usual was rise on the , toes as many times as you can. Ee extremely careful when the grip Is rampant, not to get the feet wet. More colds are taken through the feet and ankles than In anj other way. No application is bettor for lusterless hair than salt. Iiub well into the loots of the hair at night, then tie up in a large handkerchief or wear a nightcap. Drush out the salt fn the morning. Physicians declare that women are doing themselves serious injury in their efforts to get thin. Exercise is all right, but exercise so violent that it leaves a woman tired out Is not tp Le advised, any more than is too little food taken In the interest of siendcrness. For all sores and blisters whose character is not serious there is no better dressing than the spermaceti Liniment sold by druggists. It contain? spermaceti, white beeswax, almond oil aud benzoin. It Is just the simple, harmless thing to be put In a corner of one's bag when going on a walking tour. If the rims of the finger nails refuse to look clear ami well kept despite all one's care, try dripping the ends of the lingers In a half-lemon every ( day or two. Let them stay In the acid for five minutes, then rinse thoroughly In water as hot as cau be endured, wipe carfully and polish with a gocd nail jtowder. Twelve women in England can write M. P. II. after their names, which fifteen years ago was an unheard of honor. The only woman maker of violins in the world, as far as known, Is a young Hungarian girl living in Denver, Colo. Her instruments are noted for their tine tone. Among those whoso private fortunes are said to exceed $20,000,000 there are three women, Hartha Krupp of Germany, Mrs. llett fireen and Mrs. Anna Weightiuari Walker or the United States. Miss Mira I Dock, who is one of the vice presidents of the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women, has the unique honor of being the only woman on the forestry commission of Pennsylvania. The capped and kerchief grandmother Is a .thing of the past and in her id ace have come spirited young women of who can ride to hounds with sweet 1(5. Mrs. Annette Wilber, of Maryville, Ohio, in her 80th year, has become an enthusiastic member of a recently formed riding club of that city. The woman who needs prodding to keep up physical exercises would perhaps do better if they knew it is a fad for queens. Queen Alexandra rides an automatic horse, the czarina has an artificial rowing machine, Queen Helene of (Jreece climbs Imaginary mountains in her gymnasium and Marie of ltoum.uiia has a stationary bicycle on which she can pedal miles Indoors. Ilcautlfylug the Hall. In some of the American basement houses the drawing-room stairway makes u graceful sweep up from the first lloor reception and dining-room suites. Ileing so conspicuously visible at all functions to the guests invited, the side wall of this stairway, in one instance, has been treated with a series of Venetian mirrors of various shapes and dimensions, hung on the wall after the fashion of pictures. This had a wonderful effect In widening the first lloor space and In repeating all the details of furniture placed in the lower suite of rooms, from front door to dining-room Iu the rear. III! .Stakes nt IlridKe. It is a fact that many women In society have found tlumselves in rerious dillicultles because of their losses at the gaming table. There Is no morel persistent bridge player than the women whose ill luck becomes a joke to the members of her social circle. One of the stories Is that of a certain young matron who risked a

magnificent set of Russian sables, a Christmas gift from her husband, on a rubber at bridge and won. , This same young woman lost in a few months the income from her father's estate for a year, and she still is playing the game with the same feverish recklessness. Put this is only one instance out of many. The few women who do wii, however, are able to indulge their tastes for extravagance to the full, and that is the way the money goes In the end.

Use your blouse pattern, cut the front In one piece, cutting a V In the front; into this fit a dickey, face the.V, put on a sailor collar, run a drawstring through, no button to sew on nor buttonholes to make. The blouse slips on over the head and is tied; will be suitable for boy or girl, and will look neat. In making buttonholes, if the goods is loose, as serge, broadcloth and for velvet, place goods under presser foot. Commence at the lack point, run forward carefully to front po!nt, turn, take two stitches, turn, run along the other side, turn, two stitches, turn, and so on, .leaving space In the center for cutting. Then buttonhole stitch as usual. In making underwear for the small folks out of old underclothes or, other old material It requires a great amount of time to work the buttonholes, and the oid material does not wear long. To avoid this take a stout piece of muslin four Inches wide for bands. This makes bands wide enough when the buttonholes are worked at the top to have plenty of cloth below to rip from an old garment and place upon a new one. One pair of bands will outwear three pairs of drawers thus made. For l'retty Hand. Women of fashion, though capricious about many things, stick to the practice of wearing chamois gloves when asleep, to keep their hands soft. Mrs. Arthur Scott Iturdcn, daughter of Mrs. Aurel Ilatonyi aud granddaughter of Frank Work, has perfect hands, and women who know her well say she never goes to bed without drawing ou such protectors, flloves worn for sleeping ought to be three times as large as those usually required. An excellent plan Is that of slitting them up t the buses of the fourth finger and thumb respectively, so as to ierinit of a free circulation of air, the several seams being laced with ribbon aud fled round the wrist. A good cream must be rubbed on the hands after washing them, an excellent home-made skin food being that of an ounce of shredded wax and half an ounce of myrrh stirred together in a bainmarie until the wax is molted. A couple of ounces of honey and a lit lie distilled water should then be addod, with a teasioonful .or more of pure glycerine, and stirred until the mixture is of cream-like consistency, a delicate scent being given by meaus of orrisroot powder. After washing when the weather is cold, the operation of drying cannot be too thoroughly .performed. Many women take the wise precaution of rubbing a little oatmeal powder or almond meal over the backs of the hands, the fine jwwder absorbing any suspicion of moisture which may not have been removed by means or the towel. As to Engagements. When an engagement takes place the relations of the happy man should immediately express a wish to be Introduced to hh fiancee, If they are strangers to her, in order that they may welcome her as a future member of their family. If they live in the Immediate neighborhood, they call upon her and her parents; if at a distance, they invite her to pay them a visit, when her lover accompanies her and introduces her to his family. Morning Urea. This morning dress of striped blue and white silk Is made with shirtwaist. The jabot and skirt flounces of coarse white net are edged with silk. A. MatileurliiK Tip. If the hands are not good and the nails badly shaped, try to improve the hitter by training ths cuticle. Every night soak the fingers in hot water for five minutes. Then with an ora-ise wood stick press back tie cuticle to lengthen the nails. Afterwards rub In cold cream. Do not omit this or the soaking will make the cuticle very dry. lilting the Anils. This is a habit that should be immediately corrected In children, because it permanently deforms the nails. Dipping the finger ends in some bitter tincture will generally prevent children from putting them in their mouth. If this falls, each linger should be encased In a stall uutil the propensity is eradicated.

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PACIFIC FISH INDUSTRY.

rwenty Tliounniid Pounds Sold Dally I In I'oa Angelea Markets. ' The fish industry, extending from Vancouver on the north to San Diege on the south, is one of great Importance on the Pacific coast, says the Los An- , v -i v .3 ikiuiu. ivuu i many luuusauus sf dollars are invested In the business and the product of the sea finds quick sales In Los Angeles and neighboring cities. Halibut is regarded as the standard fish, ranging in weight from oue to Corty pounds and can be had the year round, except during the months of October, November and December. Barracuda is next in popularity. This product Is caught every mouth in thrj year from San Pedro to San Diego. Nets and troll lines are used for catch ing barracuda and when both methods are adopted the local market becomes glutted with the product The average weight Is five pounds. Sea bass are caught from Santa Barbara to San Diego. This fish Is one of the best products of the sea. Weight from four to fifty pounds. The red snapper or rock cod is In active demand in the winter season. The fish Is caught around Catalina or oa '"the banks" known to the fishermen. Weight one-half to ten pounds. Sardines are used for bait Bonita and yellowtail are fine table fish that are caught in nets and set lines. Bonita, four to eight pounds; ycIlowtalIt six to thirty pounds. Albicore is an oily fish popular with epicures. Bock bass is a choice fish caught in the kelp ; weight one-half to six pounds. What Is known as horse and Amerl?an mackerol is In the market during the spring months. Mackerel run- in schools; are caught with hook and line; weight one-half to three pounds. The smelt season is from Sept. 1 to Jan. 1, seines being used most successfully. Surf fish, or suckers, croakers .r klnfish and perch are among the surf fish. The sandab Is caught with hook aud line along the coast; herring is caught at San Pedro, San Diego and Santa Barbara from January to March. Herring Is fine bait for the professional fisherman. The pompano Is a delicious fish that retails at 40 cents to $1 a pound. It Is one of the choice articles of the menu cards in first-class restaurants. The prong is equally popular. Codfish, sculpius and other fish are brought to the market. Lobsters are In the market from Sept. 15 to April 1. Tuna Is a fish caught by sportsmen at Catalina. It Is not marketable. The fewfish are among the heavyweight denizens of the deep at Catalina. Big doings always follow the catch of a 300 or 400-pound jewfish. Turtles of heavy weight come from the Mexican Avaters. Professional fishermen make bis money If they have good luck. Their losses are chiefly due to damage to nets and seines by sharks aud seals. SLAVES IN MASSACHUSETTS. Rarir Chnrch 11 1em Ion on Slavery I) nnOl fled Kro Walter. The colored "mammy," devoted, loyal and autocratic, one thinks of as belonging to. the South and, the daj-s before the war, but in the far-away time of slavery in Now England she was known there also, says the Youth's Companion. One such mammy, happy and beloved, but despotic, was Violet, the slave of the Bev. Moses Parsous of Byfield, but the real ruler of the household and his lively brood of boys. Her husband, Primus, belonged to their neighbor. Deacon Xoyes, The revolution was scarcely over, but even then in that quiet comer of Massachusetts the antl-slavcry spirit was stirring and its first result was to precipitate a violent church quarrel. Deacon Colman had scruples against slavery and he expressed them with vigor and not always with entire respect for his slave-owning pastor. He was suspended ; there were meetings, discussions, appeals and denunciations and only at the death of Mr. Tarsons was he- so far softened as to admit, while yet maintaining his principles, that he had urged .them with "undue vehemence and asperity." He was then restored to the church and his olilce ol deacon. In the neighboring town of Newburyport were a number of slaves and freed fcläves, concerning some of whom anecdotes have been handed down to the present day. One negro man, hoeing barefoot In tlie Heids, struck suddenly with his hoe at what he took to be a large toad In impertinently close company with hlni. It was his own naked big toe, as he learned painfully when he had neatly sliced the top off witb tlie blow. Another colored nicn of much highei station and more complete and elegant attire was a dandy waiter employed In the oid Wclfe tavern. Noting an especially line pair of boots owned by one of the patrons, a local magnate, Bbeuezer Mose'cy, ho went to the shoomaker to order a pair of the same sort "Let cni be Jcs' like Squire Moseley's," ho commanded, magnificently, 'only a qnarter-doilar belter!" lie Jleld l p the Train. A Ccrman traveler who tried to pass a meal ticket on the train was told by the conductor that he wo'.dd have tc pay the regular fare of 3." cents. The German argued and refused to pay more than 25 cent?, whereupon the conductor stopped the train and put hin? off. In a twinkling the traveler raD ahead of the cugiae and started to walk on the track. The engineer b'ew his whistle, but the irnte German turned, shook his fisi and called out: "You can vissle all you wm t to. I cnu't come pack." The Great ISaatarU. The great bustard Is the rarest bird that conies under tho head of game. This bird formerly haunted all the level counties of England and was particularly common cn Salisbury plain. From the reign of Ik-nry VIII. repeated measures were passed iu order tc protect It, aud It is exprouly Included under the head of game In th? statute of the first year of the re!gn of William IV. which codified and reformed the laws relating to game. Mjnferle of Scent. The mysteries of scent will probably never be solved, and It is a matter of everyday observation that, while tha trained shooting dog will pass a sitting partridge, a terrier or a fcr will find the nest. London Times. "We are having an argument abrat the financial situation," said one of two men to a reporter to-day. "If there lis no prospect of a fight," s.ild tlie re-J

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BOY ON SPREE LOSES rOETUlSTL Waltor I,onl Mack, of South Bed Taken Into Ca tod j-. Two detectives suddenly stopped & feast spread before two chorus girls ia a Dearborn avenue restaurant in Chicago and spirited away the chorus girls host on charges of forgery. Walter Lewis Mack, a former student at the Leland Stanford and Notre Dame universities, was the rurprised host who in this fashion brought to a hasty end a $l,00O-a-month spree, covering a period of one year and a half. Mis Lulu Bishop and Mrs. Percy Leach were the young women With Mack np to the moment he was taken into custody ou the complaint of August Xagle, proprietor of the restaurant, who charged that Mack had giveo Hm a bad cheek. Mack, whose fat! er vas a prominent merchant of South Lend, came into an inheritance of $20,000 about 18 months ago. With this sum be set out on a sight-seeing tour about the country. ' lie lived at fashionable hotels, bought expensive jewelry' and lavishly dined and wined his acquaintances. A few days ago, it is said, his money gav out and the alleged forgery followed. COSTLY BLAZE AT MOEOCCO. Five Dnlldtnea Destroyed with Estimated Loai $35,000. The other night, beginning shortly before 11 o'clock, five business houses in the heart of Morocco-were reduced to ashes. Tbe fire started in the rear of McDonald & Russell's restaurant, and was driven eastward by a high wind along the north, side of State street till stopped by the fireproof building occupied by Kessler Sc. Co., general merchants. The total losses include the following: I. T. Purdy, meat market; Hell & Atkinson, barber shop; Irvin building, with harness and shoe shop, implement store and photograph gallery; Dowling brick building, unoccnpied, and the V. T. Hope building, where the' fire started. The wind and tho heat hampered the firemen in their work. The Irvin building alone was uninsured. Tbe others are fairly well covered. Kessler & Co. are heavy, losers by goods hastily removed and dumped in the streets. The cause of the fire is unknown. The total loss will reach $33,000. THREE KILLED AT CR0SSHKL Occupant of Closed Vehicle Are Itm Down by Limited. Alfred Kling, Mrs. Alfred Kling and the former's brother, Ora Kling, were killed at Bennett's Switch, thirteen mile south of Peru, by being run down on the crossing offthe Indiana Union Traction line by a Fort Wayne aDd Indianapolis limited car. The car was speeding at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour at the time of the collision. The three persons were in a carriage inclosed with curtains. The motorman did not see the vehicle until fifty feet away. JIAlf DIES FE01I EXPOSUBEWandrri About for llonra Clad Onlr in JAftt VndtrclolliUic. Hours of exposure to cold on the1 snow clad commons which surrounded IiScltmond caused the death of Adolph Schmidt, an insane patient who escaped from the Eastern Indiana hospital. When Schmidt eluded the hospital guards Le was clad only In light underclothing, and it was in this thin dress that he wandered about. Pranoti Baal of Odd Salt. Whether or not a man has a right fo eat peanuts and throw the shucks on the floor of an interurban car is to be tested in court by Lcroy F. Kobb of South llcnd against the Chicago. South Bend and Northern Indiana Railway Company. Kobb alleges that because he wanted to cat his peanuts the conductor threw him off. Kcbb wants $0,000 damages. Shot by Revolver In Pocket. Henry Nieters, 40 years old. night police sergeant, fell on the ice in Viraeennes, discharging a revolver in his overcoat pocket. The bullet went through his jaw, lodging in his neck between his jugular vein and the carotid artery. There la slight chance for his recovery. Boy Prisoner Escapes. Robert Thonnes. 14, arrested on the charge of breaking open the safe of the Lion ard Deer Manufacturing Company in Lafayette and taking about $203. es caped from the police station while Desk Sergeant Kluth wa3 answering the telephone. 4 Broken Hip Bone Cnne Death. Mrs. Zeptha Springer died at her homein Shelby county, the result of a broken hip bone, which she received in a fall a week before. She was 8t years old and leaves three children. Pathrr and Daacbter Barned. James II. Smith, aged GS. and his daughter, Mrs. Mattie Ilaupin, aged 31 years, were fatally burned in a fire which destroyed the home of II. W. Smith at Irvington. ' "Indiana Women Beat World. Mayor J. W. Boehne of l'vansville received a letter from M. K. Luther of Fort Morgan, Colo., asking him to secure him a wife at once. He says Indiana women heat all other kinds. STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Fire in the warehouse of Henry Coburn & Co., Indianapolis, caused a loss of $1,000,000. ' In Lebanon Xissori V. Lucas, aged TkS. was placed under arrest over an unpaid board bill. He later shot and killed himself. The Rev. W. II. Daniel, one of the best known preachers in the Methodist Episcopal thurch in Indiana, died in Decatur after a lingering illness of several monthsHe was CO years old. With liabilities of $45,000 and assets of $0,OtX, Ed Rosenbaum. Wabash clothier, assigned to the Wabash Ixan and Trust Company. His principal creditors are Mrs. Rosenbaum and her two brothers, Abraham Meyers and Jacob Meyers of Kokoino. Judge J. G. Winfrey ot the Evansville police court has declared himself an advocate of the whipping post for wife beaters. In the last two or three months a large number of wife theaters have tcen arraigned before Judge Winfrey, and Uavy fines and long jail sentences have not tended to stop the epidemic in the city. Indictments against Ilery Marshall of Lafayette, former Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives, on account of street p.;tchiug asphalt contracts ia Indianapolis, held by the Western Construction Company, of which Mr. Marshall is president, were stricken from the records, as were those against lorge Baxter, Thomas SImfelton aud John Rosnsco. Two indictments against Harry Rrunaugh, Indianapolis agent of the company, remain. Lake Shore Fireman W. A. Roderick of Elkhart found a can of giant jowder In a shovel of coal he was about to throw into the firebox of a big freight locomotive at Fdgerton, Ohio, a few days ago.