Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 8, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 November 1908 — Page 3

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Ä & :011 VELDON CnAFTER VII. (Continued.) lie had sustained a shock. It was evident. He tried to brace his nervrs, but his tones shook as he turned his colorless face to meet the wretched, cruel one of Ms companion. "Speak V he said, almost hissingly "if you know what this moans I' "What it radars ! hysterically retorted WortliiEston "ruin !" "Xonsense I" Kane shrujrged his shoidders. lie had lot the mastery over momentary weakness now. "Yon see?" pursued the other "a irop." "Of thirty points!" . "Which means " "Only two millions. "Only two millions I yes but if this joes on "It can't," confidently insisted Kane. "Rouse up, man rascally stockJobbing juc;lery of coripetitors ! A ca&aM has frightened -he; holders of our stoci, there has beer a stampede. Tomorrow our turn will i-ome." "B;it the cause the cause? persisted Worthington "for there was a cause! We are too solid to be the football of the market; then whence the break and why?" "Come in V spoke Kane gruffly, as a tap ounded on the polished mahogany door, and a messenger boy entered, handed him a telegram, departed. Kane tore it open. A queer click sounded in his throat. For a second he breathed laborinjjly. lie handed tie message to Worthington, the Utter in turn perused it. "Great heavens!" he gapped. "Kane! what is the meaning of this accumulating disaster?" The message was from a trusted agent on the New York Stock Exchange and it ran: . "Our stock is going to pieces. It has Sropped thirty points in two hours. Blennerhassetf' of the opposition syndicate has announced that the company is four mill ion in deficit on listed assets, and our bonds inflated and duplicated at two dif ferent local banking concerns. How did he find outT How for it was true! Old, tarred windler that he was. Percy V. Kane buddered as he realized what such a revelation meant: First, in money loss, next, in the eyes of the law. "Something's wrong!" reiterated Wor thington, getting up and pacing the floor like a' prodded animal. "There has been a leak. But Jiow?" "You and I only knew of the twister tog necessary to tide over the last divi dend, Bald Kane though tfully. "I.'nless except " Worthington hesitated. lie directed a keen, though hesitating, glance at his rompanion. The latter met the look stern ly ' MWelir he demanded. "Except your private secretary." "She! burst forth Kane, a rapturous, Instead of an incensed man. "Yes, Wortiington," he said softly and if there was one redeeming trait of gentleness in his base nature it came to the front now "she, indeed, knows with ns the shifts, the t secret subterfuges requisite for the accomplishment of a gigantic coup. But," and his Yoiee grew even more tender, "she is one of us.' "One of us?" , ' "Yes she is soon very soon to become my wife." "As far gone as that!" muttered Worthington, genuinely astonished. "So," pursued Kane, "whence and how the leak, look elsewhere. And ferret it out, man ! for this is a serious, & critical ituation. "You must act " "I hall actr "Listen," he said, focusing his glance cpon his weak and frightened confrere, his soul upon the theme in play; "leave me to myself for a time. I will think out a way to checkmate Blennerhassett and his crew. Meantime, you seek to learn who is playing ns false in this office. I ihall telegraph the Chemical National tö sell all our securities on the quiet, and have the funds applied -towards buying up everyiaing offered of our stock to-morrow. Will It check the tide?" waveringly Insinuated the president.; "It will bluff our rivals." "But the local banks the gross defection in assets "Leave that to me: there is work to io important, prompt. Why, man! we dare not be broken now. To-morrow's lection places in our net neventy-three Representatives and a Senator. Before this election day is over we have the key to the State treasury, a foothold in Congress, our hands tight-clasped on the throat of justice! It is not a State, tftis country, that we own, then the world is our free stamping ground ! "Kane, you are a bld genius but I tn:t jou to get us out of this dilemma."

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"lou do not trust vainly!" declared Kane. Left to himself, he slowly, meditatingly paced the apartment. He reflected rapidly but deeply, and to the point. "Something" was indeed "wrong !" a hidden hand was groping for the vitals of the great trust. Whose?" So.nething was wrong! They stood to lone two millions unless public confidence could be restored, arl the shadow of perjury, dishonor, haunted their way unless past crooked dealing in the manipulation of inflated and duplicated stocks could be covered up. Percy Kane . "thought out a way!" then his lips broke to a smile, and his eyes grew tender. II? was thinking now of the lovely girl who had come into his life like a new revelation of joy and delight, and for the moment he forgot his business troubles and his political aspiration. Again he was interrupted, again a rap at the door irritated him,. 'Come in!" he said impatiently. A meanly dressed creature crossed the thr?shold. At a first careless glance Kan? took him to be one of the workmen from the mills. "I want to show you something " began the visitor. "Oh ! go to the superintendent," annoyedly ordered Kane, believing the visitor had come with some complaint, or, as he extended one ragged arm, intended to disclose some injury received at work for Which fce hoped to secure compensation. He waved the stranger I away. The latter prang, strangely, quick and menacing before him. "Mr. Percy Kane," he said, squarely confronting the other, and ki?klng close hut tbe open door behind him, "I want to show you this !" ' Ont from his sleeve he snatched a short, thick bar of steel. "Stand where you are listen to me !" he grated hoarsely, "or witfi this, and here, and now, I'll batter out your wicked brains ! Look well at me !" And in a tone of thunder, the dreadful weapon uplifted, his eyes two angry sparks of fame, the stranger sternly demanded : t "Percy Kane, do you know me?" CHAPTER VIII. A singular shadow cros.sed the face of the great arch-schemer, mingled dread, defiance and desperation. But Kaue instantly grew calm as ice.

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J. COBB His glance unflickoring, he steadily, rather sneerinly. regarded the intruder. Then he said coldly : "Yes. I know you." "I thought you would !" biased the other, danr rously brandishing the steel bar, 1 is teeth grating, his glance murderous. I fancied you mig-at recognize " "The father " "Of your wife !" "Of the wife that was true, my man ; what of it?" His defiance and unconcern maddened th intruder. His eyes grew lurid. It seemed he would fling himself upon Kane, lie choked, ground his teeth in a violent paroxysm of rage. "Xot yet not yet!" he hoarsely muttered. "I'll give you a chance, first a last chance I" "What to do, may I ask?" coolly propounded Kane. "I'll tell you!" hissed the intruder. "Go back six years in Ohio you. flashi" your dazzling ways and your dangerous cruel smile. You won my girl, my only child, Elita. I5ut you marril her well for you ! And then, tired of h'r, jou deserted her heartlessly. You know what happened her gentJe nature drooped, her hart broke. You sent her to an insane asylum as the easiest way to get rid of her. The blow crushed me. I took to drink, I got in bad company, I stole they sent me up for five years." "Well," said Kane mot-kingly, "what is that to me?" "You shall see. For two years Elita has been sane as sane as you or I." "The asylum physicians say not." "Yes," retorted the other, "for you bribed them to say so. You were afraid to have ler free, and well you might be! Man ! devil ! do you know that your perfidy, her cruel, unjust imprisonment, have changed all her gentle nature. Beware-r-oh. beware !" "My friend," suggested Kane placidly, "we will have it out, here and now. but don't you ever venture to intrude on me p.gain. Your daughter is nothing to me. I secured a divorce from her two years ago. I am willing to provide reasonably for her, but she must not trouble me. Don't you !" added Kane significantly. "I wi'l neither be intimidated, nor blackmailed." "Listen !" Gabriel Marsden's voice rang out omirously. "I am all attention!" mocked Kane. "I have only a few words to say to you heed them!' Your wife, my daughter, is fre-!" 0 "IIo'V yon are saying this to annoy me!" declared Kane, with a palpable start. "No, and to save you or rather, her I came to you. If my appeal, does net avail, then better the gallows for me than that she should imbrue her hands in your blood !" "You are tragic!" sneered Kane. "My la. word, then!" sternly intoned the man. "remarry my daughter, quiet her pervert ed mind by so doing, and I depart, she can be placated. Refuse, and " "What ,then?" "She will kill you ! You jeer ! Man ! You do rot know what the is now, a cold, relentless, determined woman, set upon having her rights or your life!" i "The law will look to that. I fancy I have the means and the power to wjuelch you both." "Useless!" shouted the man ferociously "useless to temporize with you ! Then you shall have it; a trampled father's vengeance !" The einax impended, the culminating moment had come he saw the folly of trying to reach, ' to move, this man. All the time Kane had been secretly watching every move his visitor made. The latter now sprang at him, the murderous bar uplifted. 1 CIIAPTEJt IX. Kane was no coward besides that he was an athlete. Quick as lightning his arm shot out- His sinewy fist landed under the st-anger'a left jaw. He went crashing into a corner. Before he could gatlier himself up Kane had flashed to a table, touched a button, and as, raving like a madman and foaming at the mouth, his adversary started up to renew the assault, two men in answer to the summons quietly but swiftly entered the room. They had the man in their strong grasp before he could reach for and regain the bar. Kane glided to the side f one of his captors trusted detectives in the employ of the company, mea who knew how. to fulfill a mission given to the letter. ' He whispered a command they dragged the prisoner away to sure obscurity and silence. "You've downed me !" raved the man "but when you come to deal with her with Elita have a care of yourself, Percy Kane ; you are doomed !" Kane sank into a chair, left to himself. The double excitement of the hour had slightly unnerved him. It was not in his nature to be daunted, however. Inside of five minutes he had summed up the situation complete, had counted the possible results of the preson complication, believed he could handle it, ami coolly dismissal it from his mind. His thoughts composed, fortified, he set at work to face the serious situation of the company's concerns. Plan after plan he turned over in his. mind. He was a past grand master at juggling finance he fancied he saw his way clear before him to offset the stock market stampede of the day. He planned his campaign of procedure. About to arise and set the same in motion, he was disturbed by the entrance of an usher. He presented a card; Kane glanced at it. lie read : "Dunstreet'a." "So soon !" he muttered so soon the swarming of the harpies about the prey ! The great clearing house of commercial information was on his track, already ! Kane was his blandest suave, politic, ingenuous, as he met this representative of the great agency. Perhaps a thought thrilled his ralnd, a mmory of that other visit of a "Dunstreet" man, when the rotten silver company went to pieces.! The agency reporter had his say ; the great trust was "open for rating;" that is, information had been received at variance with the last subscribed statement of the company, and until the same was explained, the high commercial rating of the corporation would stand at "blank." "To-morrow morning," said Kane to the agency representative, "this company will furnish you with a statement Hhowing three dollars in tangible assets for every dollar of indebtedness. I shall expect you here at tea o'clock, and will verify the statement with you at the local banks." The reporter withdrew. Kane's pose was now that of the startled hare with the hunters keen on the trail. He hurried from room to room until he found the president. He cornered him in private. "There is just one thing to do," he declared "we must shift the duplicate securities and make up a solid three millions withia the next twelve hours, or go under.' "You talk of impossibilities!" exclaimed the president. "No whisper." What words stole sinister and awe

some into the president's ear must haro been weighted with ominoups import, for he drew back with a sharp shiver. "Oh, never !" he gasped. "Kane, you can not mean it !" "Yes, I do mean it," calmly, decisively, retorted the other. "To apply the trust fumls left in oir charge sacredhy man! should they be engulfed, then for you, for myself, it is the convict garb, and prison bars !" "It must be done there is no other way. We must turn back the storm of distrust beating at our threshold, at all cost or risks!" He prevailed upon his confrere at last. They laid their plans for the morrow. They spoke of the impending election to-morrow the day th'it would see them masters of the industrial world or paupers ! About two hours later Fercy Kane entered his private office. He paused gently ere he approached the trim, little figure at a desk his private secretary. ne was the lover rapt, reverent as he spoke softly to beautiful Claire Trcmaine of their approaching marriage. In his ardor and joy at the near possession of this rare treasure, he did not note how chilling was her sot, stony face, that she shuddered every time her eyes met his own. He was buoyed up by love when he loft her. The future seemed golden. He felt he could overcome all obstacles, for with the morrow his grasp on fortune and power would tighten must tighten ! And she this peerless being had consented to be his wife life bore a new motive, a new and mighty happiness! Alone, Claire Tremaine stood like one stricken, but borne irresistibly forward by stern, somber fate. She drew from a pocket a small photograph it was t secretly treasured portrait of Gideon Hope. She tore it across, once, twice, tears falling upon the fragments. She dropped them like sacred relics into the fireplace. It was too late to draw back now, and she had pledged her word, to Percy Kane that in two days she would become his wife ! (To be continued.)

BLONDES DYING OUT. Scientists Say They Will D Cxtlnct la Six Hundred Years. Despite the use of peroxide and face lotions, the blondes are passing. They are getting scarcer every ciy, and they will disappear entirely In six centuries according to the melancholy prediction of scleuce. There will be no more fair complexions, no more golden locks to give contrast in the spangled ranks of the chorus. The world will be n wilderness of brunette beauty, ranging between the shades of coffee and bituminous coal. Lovers will sigh and dream of the golden past, unless they are quite blinded by their passion. Artists will resign themselves to studies In black and white. A blonde person who appears In the street will probably be arrested for drawing a crowd. Even red whiskery w ill be an extreme rarity, only exhibited in dime museums, and the Juxtaposition of white horses and red-headod girls will be a miracle. It Is a frightful prospect, as sketched by Frederick Boyle in The Contemporary Revlew.and onethat is alleviated only by its comparative remoteness. Humanity may be able to think up some means of staving off its brunette doom within the next 00 years. It might decide to wear wigs or spend part of each season at International bleacheries established at the North Pole. The congresses and parllamentsof theworld might offer a reward for the discovery of a hair dye that won't run and a face cream that won't zaste like oleomargarine. Six centuries do give us a little breathing time to take steps against the descent of darkness. The fair complexioned folk, it seems, are not fitted to survive in these modern days of qul"k luncheons and subway travel. They were all right to conquer and colonize the world when that was a healthy outdoor exercise, but they can't compete with -the brunette now in the bustle and close quarters of great cities. The whole Aryan race 1 probnbly-on the downhill. This race Includes the Hindus, Anglo-Saxons, Afghans, Germans, Greeks, Persians, Irish. French and other tribes, who generally despise one another and call the other kind "dagoes." The whole lot of them are losing their blue eyes, pale cheeks and light hair, as if the evolutionary make-up man were preparing them for a minstrel show. The process did not begin yesterday, but It has no doubt been accelerated with the speedy development of modern condi tions. The blondes were great fighters and migrators. The Homeric heroes hal mostly golden locks, and the Athenians were probably fair a. d blue eyed, like the early Venetians and the socalled Moors who conquered Spain. Spirit Laud Mexaa.cea. Perhaps all the so-called messages from, the dead come from living minds. I mean the minds of those about us. Dr. Iteed, a friend of mine, once ar ranged to go with n patient to have a test sitting with a very celebrated psy chic who claimed to be able to read sealed letters. Just before the ap pointed day Heed's patient died suddenly of heart disease, leaving a sealed letter on his desk. The doctor, fully alive to the singu lar opportunity, put the letter In his pocket and hastened to the medium The magic.'an took it In his hand and pondt-red. At last he said: "This was written by n man now tn the spirit world. I cannot read it. There Isn't a medium In the world who can read it, but If you will send it to any person anywhere on the planet and have It read and resealed ,1 will tell you what is in it. I cannot get the words unless some mind in the earth plane has absorbed them." That would seem to prove a sort of universal mind reservoir, wouldn't it? Isn't that a staggering hypothesis? Hamlin Garland In Everybody's Magazine. Ilottoinleas Pits. Bottomless pits are facts, not fancies, according to Prof. E. A. M artel, a distinguished French geologist He declares that this term may be applied tc cliff caves whose lowest part has been cut off by the erosion of the valleys bolow, thus turning them into tunnels through which the valley may be seen. The most remarkable abyss of this kind 13 the hole of Platary In Europe. From the railway between Grenoble and Veynes, It Is seen high up In the air like a pinhole near the summit of a limestone cliff. Ills ITsnnl Stunt. "Dear," said the melancholy wife, "if you die first you will wait for me there on that'far shore, won't you?" "I guess so," replied her husband, wearily. "I've always had to wait for you everywhere I go." Philadelphia Ledger. New York City has 5,000 push-cart merchants. In some Instances the value of their stock on one cart amounts to $150.

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Don't Be u Drndxe. When a woman Is a household drudge, who has time, neither to improve her mind or her body, it were well for her to ask the reason of if. Often it will be found to be caused by lack of system. The. necessary duties of the house are done just any time instead of on regular days. In conse quence, sometimes they are crowded out entirely, at others are done under such a feeling of pressure as to become a burden. It is as important to live on schedule in one's domestic arrangements as If it were another person's business which must be managed. Many women feel themselves drudges because they attempt a scale of living beyond their resources. While everyone wants as dainty appointments and service as possible, when that can be had only at the expense of nerves and brain development, it Is well to live more simply. If you find you cannot get through your day's work comfortAbly without being tied down unduly, simplify jour work in every possible way. Have less elaborate meals. The change will save not your time alone, but your money and your family digestions. Buy all the labor-saving appliances that can be had. It will be found to be economy In the end, though the first bills may be rather staggering. Often the drudgery may be caused by not getting up early enough in the morning. A late breakfast keeps everyone in a drag all day. It is not a hardship to get up early if the habit is once formed. Indeed' you will soon get to enjoy it. If you. can save enough time off this end of the day to snatch a half hour's rest after the noonday meal, it will mean much more real rest. When you know you are a drudge, steal the time to get a little reading done each day, even if desserts are occasionally missing or the baby does not have hand-made slips. If it be only fifteen minutes it will give you a new grip on life, and make the Inevitable wrestling with three meals and dishwashing more endurable. The mother of a large family, who. suddenly awakening, to the realization that she was an unpaid slave, decided to take her day out like "the cook, has discovered the secret of throwing off her dnulgchood. That one afternoon a week devoted to visiting, an occasional concert, long walks or an hour or two with a good book, has eased all the rest of the week's work. Don't be a Drudge. It can be helped, and it should be. Ganollne for Waaltlnnr. Too many people tell of their failure in gasoline washing. In nine cases out of ten, the reason is that too little gasoline Is used. If you wash with water, you usually take a good basinful or pailful, but, when you wash with gasoline, you are apt to put a cupful Into a generous-sized pall. This, of course, is just enough to stir up the dirt and to distribute it in a gray tone all over the lace, gloves or what not to be cleaned. Take a generous bowlful of gasoline and wash your gloves, laces, veils, neckwear, ribbons and silken accessories; then rinse them in plenty of clean gasoline. After using, if you will let the gasoline stand for a few moments, all the dirt will settle and you can carefully pour off the clean gasoline to use at another operation. To clean gloveS, put them on the hands and scrub with a little brush, afterward rinsins them like a pocket handkerchief. Silk washed In gasoline loses none of Its dressing ; feathers lose none of their curl; plaitlngs stay plaited. Never, of course, use gasoline In a room where there is burning stove or where the gas Is lighted. When Women Admired W'hlakers. For ages beards were the delight o.' ancient beauties. The sight of n bhaved chin excited sentiments of horror and aversion. To obey the injunctions of his bishops, Louis VII. of France cropped his hair a la pompadour and shaved off his luxuriant whiskers. Eleanor Aqultane. his consort, found him with his uncommon appearance very ridiculous and very contemptible. She revenged herself by becoming something more than a coquette. The kin? obtained a divorce. Sht'thcn married the Count of Anjou, who shortly after ascended the English throne, and gave him as her marriage dower the rich provinces of Poitou and Guicnnc. And this was the origin of those wars which for 000 years ravaged France and which cost the French nation 3,000,000 men; all of which, probably, had never taken place if Louis VII. had not been so rash as to shave off his whiskers, by which he made himself so disgusting to the fair Eleanor. New York Press. l 9. Irish and valenclennes lace combine jrettily In winter collars. Black will be much seen, both In Ircss and everyday gowns. Plush will band the small turban Timmed with ostrich plumes or small lips. The green cloth cutaway oat and a rreen Georgette hat are the belongings 5f a careful dresser. Something smart for an evening waist could be fashioned of old rose crepe with trimmings of lace. Chant illy lace is now usil in making an entire dress. It is further trimmed with lace bands showing a bit of color. English tweeds in plaid effects will Im? seen this season in separate oints, made in three-quarter lengths with long sleeves; trimmings of silk. New shades are wistaria, cedar, peacock blues and greens, cobalt, canard, taupe, smoke, mulberry, apricot, mousquetaire, mustard and many others. The fringed muff is one of the latest innovations, the muff being slit up into oblong stripes over accordion-plaited chiffon designed in the same color as the pelt. An evening cloak that closed with gold cord and tassels showed gold

grapes that clustered beneath the white velvet collar. The style, while very elaborate, was quaint and pretty. For tailor-mades Tuchings of linen, plaited tiny and extremely narrow in fact, just a line is fashionable. This is put in sleeves as well, and In somo cases we see it rimming pockets. Many white lace waists made with a joke effect with the lace divided down the center front have the fronts lac-ed together with velvet ribbon, tied with a knot at the lower point. The lacing should be V-shaped. The touch of velvet is used this season to give to lace waists a newer note.

Lace Curtnlns. Lace curtains must on no account be ironed. In the country they may be stretched on. the grass, pinning out every point; in the town a sheet spreal on the carpet will be found more suitable. Dwellers in flats who And it diflieult to dry such large articles will be glad to know that if the curtains are hung up' wet at an open window overnight they will be dry next morning and hang more gracefully than if dried in the usual way. Take them down next morning, fold lengthways and pass through the mangle. Feathers may be washed by placing them in linen bugs. Dip and squeeze these in soapsuds, rinse in clean water and dry in sieves in an empty room, turning the feathers frequently to prevent them sticking .together. A Pulaon Factory. The body is a factory of poisons, says n big pathologist. These poisons are constantly leing poured out at the fate of 8 pounds a day. One-third of all this poisonous excreta i passes through the lungs in the form of steam or vapor. The lungs within their comparatively small compass contain a folded surface of flltout l.OOO square feet. In area equal to the thxir of a room 40 feet square.

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It is through this surface that the oxygen is drawn into the body and the poisonous carbon dioxide thrown off. Smoke in reality Is nothing more or less than a cloud of line carbon dust soor. And when this dust comes into contact with the surface of the lungs it forms a thin coating which obstructs the entrance of oxj-gen-laden air, as well as the exit of the poisonous outbreaking. The smoker or he who inhales smoke, either directly or by sitting In a smokeladen atmosphere, is both starved and Ioisoned ; starved for oxygen, the most important of all foods, and jwlsoned by bis own excreted waste. Tor the Health. Antiseptic gauze Is an article that particular women are using now. While not precisely cheap, it can not be called exer.sive, and as face cloths It can be used a couple of times before being thrown away. Every physician now deprecates strongly the use of handkerchiefs for bad head colds, and advocate this gauze, cut into 12-inc': squares, that must be burned when soiled. In Ibis way any danger of contagion to those In the same household is avoided. In traveling, a few yards of gauze may be carried and wash cloths cut off as required. They are thrown away after taking off the dirt of one journey. Vae For Crochet Cotton. Cloths with an edging of Irish crochet are among the smartest novelties for the tea table. Many a person employ the hours on the piazza this summer crocheting .edgings for just such purposes. The crochet cotton which comes on spools Is by far the In-st material to use. Speaking of this cotton, some , needlewomen do not know that this is better for feather stitching lingerie, of whatever dainty or sheer material it may be made. After one or two launderings the soft twisted cotton fails to give an idea of the work expended by the embroiderer. Homemade Ja rill nl ere. Any old-fashioned stone Jar or crock may be made to resemble a most expensive Oriental jardiniere. Cover the outside of the jar with quite a thick layer of putty, then have a bit of colored broken china pounded into small pieces, and stick these pieces close together over the whole jar. The effect Is altogether Oriental and beautiful. Another Idea for a pedestal to put the jardiniere on Is to buy one length of sewer pipe about six inches in diameter, cnanH it white and paste on the side buttern" is, birds or any picture you may desire. Short Done In Cornet. It is Interesting to know that while corsets are longer, the bones in them are shorter. They go over a part of the hip, but do not run down to the end of the rorscr. These long Imjuos were found disastrous, as they were constantly breaking or bending and pushing the corset into a curve below the waist. Now the bones stop short enough to prevent breakage, and the eoutille Is stranx-d and stitched and fitted to the figure for the rest of the length. I'olinh'nj; I'n rn I tare. X mixture of equal parts of boiled linseed oil and turpentine will renew varnished woodwork, floors and furniture, but very little of it should le used, and what there is should be rubbed in until absolutely no oil Is left on the surface. Otherwise the oil will catch the dust, and a dull film will soon form over the vnrn.'sh. The best

remedy for a dulled or whitened wax finish , is good hard rubbing. A little polish may bo used if the case is a desperate one, but none should be left on the surface. White spots caused by heat or moisture will disappear If rubied hard immediately with a simple polish, says Harper's Bazar. An oldfahioned polish for renewing old mahogany and, strangely enough, recommended for iolishing brass, also, is the following, dating from 1777: Two ounces of butter of antimony, two quarts of cider vinegar, one-half pint of linseed oil. one-half pint of ale (not beer). Mix antimony with oil, then add ale. put Into half-gallon demijohn and shake well with the vinegar. Use soft cloths, audi shake well to mix before using. This polish has worked miracles in restoring old mahogany. To Mend Broken China. The most successful way to' mend broken china is the following formula: Powder a small quantity of lime and take the white of one egg and mix to gether to a paste. Apply this quickly to the china to be mended, place the broken pieces together firmly, and they will become set and strong. It is uucsual rhen china breaks in the same place again after being mended with this paste. One Woman Cook' Record. A Boston woman who has just celebrated her golden anniversary as a cook leasts of having made and baked 394,000 pies, 2,000,000 doughnuts and something more than 1,500,000 puddings, besides a multitude of other dainties and no end of baked beans. Her n?cipes are all her own and she refuses to write a cook book. Feather Rnffi for ck. It is quite fashionable now to wear around the neck a close-fitting ruff made of an ostrich feather of small tips. This has an extra wide white niching altove and sometimes below. Armlet 3. Bolero Effect. The feathers are secured with a tightfitting satin band, which ends over th hooks and eyes with a rosette and twe short streamers.' These are expenslv to buy, therefore the woman who ha small feathers put away can accomplish such a ruff at home during the morning hours. Steaming the feathers and recurling them with a scissor blade will put them In good condition. The rufl should fit the neck and be worn over a stock with a coat suit. Afternoon Iteceptton Ccwn. Reception gown of Ciel blue meteoi silk crepe cut en Directoire with long train skirt, whose every line, however, is ierfect. The bodice is made elaborate with a yoke of white filet embroidered iu silver and outlining the yoke Is a fold of velvet somewhat darker than material, edged with a frill of narrow white lace. . Sleeves are also lace trimmed and the shaped bertha of crepe is held in place by two large, fancy blue buttons. A Woman's Chnnee ol Marrying. Woman's age. Chances in 100 18 to 2.1 100 2.1 to l0 IOC .TO to 33 100 33 to 40 100 40 to 00 100 Widow, any az 100,000 New York livening Sun. To Have m Clear Skin. A clear skin Is one of the essentials of good health and beauty, and nothing conduces more to this end than frequent baths and brisk rubbings. They will do much to keep the skin soft and the whole body vigorous. ' Eat Moderately. In order to be in perfect health one must be temperate in eating. The meals also should be regular. Regulär Ity is one of the golden rules of a wellordered life. Don't Rleet Sleep. You can sleep yourself Into good looks. A warm bath and a long nap will make any woman more attractive and lift years from her shoulders. Tired Keet. After bathing tired foot in hot water it Is very soothing to rul) them with olive oil. "When Dabf Choke. Do not slap baby on the back when lie chokes, but raise the left hand above the head, which will give relief.

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I REVIEW OF ' INDIANA

Ed Simmonds, 52 years old, a farmer five miles northeast of Goshen, fell unconscious in a field while husking corn and died two hours later without regaining consciousness. The recent advent Into this world of a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lubin, of South Bend, forms an odd combination. The girl, born on Friday, the 13th, is the thlrtenth child of Mr. and Mrs. Lubin. AV. F. B3ckman, a member of the Indianapolis police force for the last sixteen years, dropped dead while cut hunting near Seymour. Heart failure was the cause of his sudden death. He was 51 years old. Her horsed taking fright at a street car in Wabash, lunged and threw Mrs. John Unger from her buggy, her skull being fractured. The hospital attendants say she will die. Mrs. Frank Cooper, who was with her, was also badly hurt. A farmer near Oakland City, has a pumpkin In which the -seeds have sprouted and small vines have formed. Until the pumpkin was cutpen there was no way for air to reach the vines, still they have attained a length of several Inches. The Btone-crushing plant of the Ma rengo Manufacturing Company, at Marengo, thirty miles west of New Albany, on the Southern railway, was destroyed by fire recently. The origin Is unknown. Loss on building and machinery is about $10,000, partly Insured. David Mitchell; a miner from Scranton, Pa., who now lives at Oaktown, is the father of twelve children, tea of whom are living. No two of the children have been born in the same month, each child representing a different month. The oldest is twenty and the youngest is three months. "William Hoffer, a barber of Evansville, was stricken with total paralysis at his barber chair while shaving a customer. The razor fell from his nerveless hand across the throat of the man In the chair, but the blade turned and Inflicted nly a slight gash over the jugular vein. Hotter wiy die. Joshua Whiteman, aged 50 years, and his daughter Essie, aged 22, south west of Morocco, are both dead from mi!k sickness. Mr. Whiteman, who was a prominent fanner, contracted the disease about ten days ago. Shortly after his death the. daughter was stricken in the same way, dying a short time afterward. David Hetzger, living nine miles northwest of Morocco, was hauling some marsh hay to cover a shed when he uncovered a large muskrat. In at tempting to kill the animal Metzger stumbled and fell to the ground and before he could rise It bit him twice on the hand and on the wrist, inflicting painful wounds and which may prove serious. . "William Locke was probably fatally hurt and Fred Whittle was seriously injured when a scaffold fell at the home of Newton Johnson, south of Latayette. Both are carpenters. , Locke fell on his head, suffering concussion of the brain and four broken ribs. Whittle's leg was broken, and he is injured internally. The scaffold was twenty-six feet above the ground. Lillian Wirth, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Wirth, of Princeton, who died in Evansville recently after a brief illness, was familiarly known In Princeton as "the Little Milkmaid," from the fact that for more than two years she had driven her father's dairy wagon, and her cheery greetings to her patrons as she made her dally rounds, won ihe warm friendship of all with whom she came in contact. Covington Kessler, a well-known citizen of Danville, was painfully and probably fatally injured while engaged in making the excavation for the new electric light plant He was driving the "snatch team," drawing a large wagon carrying pearly two yards of clay from the äxcävatlon, when he tripped and fell under the wheels, which passed over his body between the hips and shoulders. The other driver stopped his team, and in so doing the load was allowed to move down the incline, by which manner the wheels passed over his body the second time. The Rev. A. H. Dooley, who died recently at Rockville, was one of the best-known Baptist ministers In Indiana. His first pastorate was at Elizaville, Boone County, which he filled for twelve years. During his nice than fifty years in the ministry he served as pastor ot nineteen different cturches in the following associations: Indianapolis, Logansport, Judson, Whitelick, Monticello and Freedom. In those years he baptized 412 converts. While visiting some of the churches where he was pastor fifty years and more ago, he was stricken with' his fatal illness. Thousands of Baptists in Indiana knew him and will learn with profound sorrow of his death. William N. Ballot!, of Fort Wayne, law partner of E. G. Hoffman, surprised his friends and was married to Miss Vera D. Fish, living near Defiance, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Ballou will reside In Fort Wayne. A reading glass In Sive &. Behrman's window at Logansport, centered the sun's rays on a glove, causing it to catch fire. Sparks burned a large hole in tho glove, and the packing caught fire. The blaze was discovered before any serious damage was done. John S. Irdell, 66 years old, died last week at Richmond from blood poisoning. While trimming a corn six weeks ego he inflicted a slight knife wound on one of his toes, which resulted in blood poisoning. He was a member of the insurance firm of Ferguson & Co. Chester Clark, of Lafayette, was the victim of an accident in which his right hand was cut off in a corn shredder at Battle Ground. He was operating the shiydder with a safety device upon it, but had climbed on top of the machine to throw in some loose corn. His hand was caught in the cogs. Ray, the 24-year-old son of J. K. Harper, of Elkhart, was killed at Lansing, Mich., when he tried to board a train. He had been married only a few weeks. , , James Robertson, a gardener living near Morocco, has gathered his crop of Japanese popcorn. The " largest ears are little more than an inch long and about as big around as a reed, pipe stem, requiring between ZZO and 400 ears to make a half bushel. Mr. Robertson says that it pops much better than the' rice popcorn and has an exceptionally fine flavor.

Fred Mintzer, a photographer of Ev

ansville, had a bottle .of sipipharic acid to explode in his 'hands. His face was burned and he may lose his sight. While preparing lo go hunting near Clarksburg, John Stott, aged 23, was shot and killed by Jack Farthing. One of the guns was out of order, and while Farthing was attempting to fix It the shell exploded. G. X. Xorris and W. G. Lamb, with their wives, from Scottsburg, passed Evansville a few days ago in a gaseline boat, and will make the trip all the way to Galveston, Texas, "here they will sell their craft and return home by rail. Eugene H. Miller, treasurer of the American Trust Company, of South Bend, and one of the leading bankers in Indiana, was accidentally shot and severely wounded while hunting near Walkerton. A charge from his gun lacerated his foot, John M. Pearcy, of Martinsville, a breeder of Duroc-Jersey swine, thas , sold his herd boar, John's Ohio Chler. 174S5, to D. B. Johnson & Sons, of Mooresville, for $500. John's Ohio Chief has gained a great reputation among stock men of Indiana. Showing evidence of wealth, a 6-weeks-old child was abandoned at the doorstep of David Foutz in 'Wabash, but later taken to an institution. The affair has created a mystery, for a man drove to the house and left the basket, but cannot be traced. Mrs. Eliza Coleman, aged 89, was found unconscious in the basement at her home In Princeton with a great ' hole in her head and her spine fractured. She died without regaining consciousness. It is supposed she started down the basement stairs and fell. Walter Ixng, a former Wabash farmer, was recently sentenced to 35 years in prison at Culbertson, Mont", and his brother, Milo Long, to 13 years, for heading a band ot night riders who shot down John Hayes and his daughter. They went to Montana two years ago. Julius Bell, who lives one-half mile south of Knightstown, was arrested by a Deputy Sheriff of Rush County for stealing corn from the crib of BenonI M. Parker. A fann, employe says ae j discovered Bell stealing the corn. Bell and his family have lived in the vicinity for many years. Charles Campbell, aged 18, of Centerpoint, was shot in the head and back by Ross Gütz, while shooting at a flock of quail Campbell's cOdition is serious. Merle Miller, aged 17, of Poland, was accidentally shot in the face and breast by Charles Jones, while quail hunting. Maletis Fields, while coon hunting near Princeton, climbed a tree after a coon and followed It out on a wl!d grapevine fifty feet above the ground. The vine broke and Fields dropped to the ground and rolled down a hill. Xo bones were broken, but he is suffering from the shock of the fall. The coon got away. Mit- Martha Xorris celebrated her ninetieth birthday last week, at the home of her daughter, Mra. Barton Fullom. ig Lyons. She has six children. Four were present, two sons be ing away, one in Mississippi, another in Tennessee. Relatives were present from Indianapolis, Sandborn and Westphalia. Fof the last nineteen years the children have held birthday celebrations for thjr mother. As a result of reading Wild West stories and seeking to imitate cowboys in branding cattle, William Talbert, aged 16, Is under arrest at Evansville. He is charged by Mrs. Henry James with cutting crosess on her cows wiü. a jackknife. When locked up Willie could not see anything wrong In branding the cows in his neighborhood in order to get in practice before he went to be a cowboy. The boy is charged with cruelty to animals. Patrolman L. W. Campbell refuses ,to resign from the Logansporl police force after repeated demands for his resignation Dy tjapt. ueorge ii. uraham, and ho nightly appears at police headquarters ready to go to work. When the resignation was first demanded Campbell asked why fce shoulA resign and demanded to know if Captain Graham and the police board had any grounds on which they based their demand. An evasive answer was given and he refused to quit. The suit against the Rev. George T. Butler, of Albion, brought by Mrs. Belle Howard, of Peru, to recover money obtained from her by Mr. Butler for cement factory stock has been dismissed. Mrs. Howard asserted that the minister had misrepresented the stock, and she, together with many others in Peru, had purchased in amounts totaling $20,000. The cement plant was never finished, and the stockholders received no dividends. The company was organized by Toledo capitalists represented by Mr. Butler la the sale of stock. Because their parents had threatened to send them to the Girls' Itcform School for playing hookey Miss Mabel Griffin and Lucile Yeo attempted suicide together at Bloomington, Their recovery is doubtful. John Scott, 25 years old, of Andersonville, while hunting rabbits ran before A. J. Farthing's gun just as the latter shot at a rabbit The entire charge entered his v abdomen, producing Instant death. Scott leaves a widow and two small children. The new station of the Big Four, in Franklin, is completed and in use. The old station was destroyed by fire about a year ago, and Eince then a passenger coach bad been used. The new building is heated with a furnace and lighted with electricity. Owing to losses which he Is said to have sustained In making deals in blooded' hog t tock, F. D. Conrad, a yoüng farmer, living near Leo, staffed all the cracks in his room la a Fort Wayne hotel, turned on the gas and was found later In a critical condition. He probably will recover. Mrs. Samuel Hite, aged 40, was found by her son lying at her home in Warsaw, with a deep gash in the back of her head. She had been dead probably two hours. The cause of her sudden demise is unknown. Many fanners In the vicinity of Newcastle will have to buy meat and lard. Entire droves of hogs have been swept nwav hr tlie rhnlern In n rnmmnnlt j east of the city, embracing a territory j a mile square, farmers have lost over 300 marketable hogs. Similar conditions prevail in other parts of the couuty.