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A Political WELDON CHAPTER X. Three o'clock in the afternoon of election day three o'clock in a maelstrom, a vortex ! Percy Kane had reached the acme, the apotheosis, of his career tt tha hour, yet here, amid turbulent, excited political confreres, he was the coolest person in the room. ' It was at the central headquarters of the party or rather clique which he had chosen to bear him, the great trust, on to power and fortune. Wires, constant tick in, in other rooms, the incessant jar of telephone bells niesages, telegrams, hurrying, scurrying precinct leaders, more dignified officials, a Jostling, seething mob half exhausted after a day at the polls in a contest that in sixty minutes more would free or enslave a great State ! There had been peculiir rffniors aüoat since about dawn, for at 7 o'clock "masked batteries" had appeared all along the line. Almost to a man the potent Amalgamated, which Kane and his hirelings had believed to be servile under a spell of dread and influence, had swung into action boldly massed for the opposition. Then up from the southern tier of counties came the rumor of a trade in candidates that meant the swamping of five Deeded representatives. TU western pxeeincts, too, reported strange and mysterious defections among the ranks of the faithful. "1 can't understand it," anxiously asserted Kane to a powerful political boss at his elbow "it looks as though concerted action had been planned months and months ago." "It's a new play in politics, then,", declared the other, "for we did not get a bint of it in advance. "Can they win out?' questioned Kane icriously. "With our lead, and our money?" derisively smiled tie boss "well, hardly!" It was a restless hour for the trust magnate. lie sat turning over accumulated reports on the table before him, listening to the statements of new arrivals. The minutes sped by. It was four o'clock. For weal or. woe the die was cast; the election was over. '-. Kane arose at the striking of the clock, passed some words with his managers, and was driven to the principal hotel in the to-wp, where the president of the trust .had agreed to report to him on company matters that evening. He found Worthmgton awaiting him. A first sight of . his wretched, twitching -face told him thatvhe was he bearer of no encourtginj news. 1 That morning tue nu-ppropriated securities had been placed in the local banks, the t;ency man hoovinked, the statement of new assets wired to New Yorfc. . - ThcTiCane had advised his partner he done his all. Pending strict undivided attention to the political situation, he rflTTt not be disturbed with news of the financial outcome, good or bad, until the eicciion was over. "What have you to report?" he inquired, rapidly scanning his companion's face. "The worst, Kane the worst I" half groaned the unhappy president. "Oar stock?" "It hasn't budged from last night's lowest figures." "What ! The new statement, the heavy baying we ordered?" The president shook his head wearily. "The i'cblic are scared warned, Kane; a, blight has fallen upon usl. Someone with the completest knowledge of our most secret affairs U directing this attack upon our stock. The final blow " "How !" "The owner of the mixed metal process, our biggest hold for proSt, has gone over to the Blenn?rhasset' combine." "Impossible!" "It's true. Kane, I'm frightened! I'm afraid in fact, I have learned that it is leaking out that we have hypothecated the trust securities, and " He paused. It was needless to go on. Percy Kane's face was the fa.ee of a man who knew that the final blow had come, and ruin was their portion.' In his mind at that moment wa a quick, wild suggestion he treasured for final desperate action ; to "run for it," with what of ready ( cash he could secure. If the day ended with no change in the situation. Kane drfjik deeply the few remaining hoar of Cnylight. He managed to get rid of bis limp, weak financial .colleague, and sought more congenial company among his political friends. Seven o'clock found him one of a group of half a dozen choice party leaders, occupying a room in the hotel that looked directly out upon a great blank sheet on which, the returns were to be thrown from a stereoptlcon. The returns were "mixed," and slow in coming in. This gave Kane time for hope time,, too, for planning what he would do if inevitable crash was not to be averted. If the election went favorable, it would suggest one salient voint to his industrial rivals; the trust would practically control the State a power, this, more valuable than an unlimited franchise for monopoly. As the fumes of liquor rose to his clear, steady brain. In red less desperation Kane encouraged a plcturs In which he figured as a fugitive, but with an abundance of stolen means, and a lovely bride to share his forced sojourn in some stfe and remote foreign clime. II and his friends adjourned from the table to the expansive by window, as It was announced that the returns were beginning to come in with ;apidity and regularity. On; man alone, an old, experienced political hack, remained at the table, pencii and tab before him, ready to estimate a basis of loss or gain from the merest "straw" indication of a precinct or county. All were fairly hilarious as they at first watched the flashlight figures. But in half an hour each man of the group was silent, anxious. And then stupefied! It was incredible ! preposterous ! Precinct after precinct, county after county, rolled in opposition gains, or opposition majorities. "Kane, It looks bad!" observed a serious faced ringster, coming up to him. "Yes, unless the tide turns, we are beaten." "Sir. Kane!" The o!d professional had arisen from the table, unsteady, but not at all maudlin. His tab was in his hand. "Do you want an estimate?" he inquired. "I am beginning to form a decidedly adverse one myself." "I can give you almost exact figures "And they tell?" "The State will swing round to the opposition by over 60,000 majority I" A hissing curse left Percy Kane's grim lips, for fcahad confidence in the prediction. He stepped but upon tue balcony, to get a reviving breath of fresh air, to be alone, to cast up the chances a they now faced him. and act! Slowly he buttoned up his coat, and

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J. COBB shook off the insidious lethargy provoked by the liquor he had drank. '"I need a clear head, he muttered. "I must gt to the treasurer's vault, I muat see her, arrange for the marriage, flight, at once, if this last hope is indeed failing me." Again he glanced at the bulletin like snapshot reproductions the returns were flft.-hing out, a cheering mob in the street below. Every new set of figures emphasized the fact that boodle and bribery had sustained a telling defeat. "(Jive it up?" abruptly spoke a voice at his elbow. "Yes " short, definite. "It's queer, though all Mie work we did, so 6iire were we." "There's been a mistake somewhere," drily observed Kane. '"Wrong there's been slick, secret work of the finest doscription by some masterhand at politics!" retorted the other. In politics as in finance, mused one . the full force of realization overcame him. Who had been undermining him and why? As he ?too;l thinking this over, it seemed as if he coud vaguely trace power and method behind the double assault on the the company and the company's political interests. "Directed at me personally?" he muttered. 'Tshaw! why? and by whom? Only a turn in the tide well, I've had my show !" Out from the balcony a form had stolen, noiselessly as had it glided through the crowded room. It was the "disguised" man Gideon Hope. II i kept In the shadow, his eye fixed strangely upon one. Then, abruptly, he struck .1 rantch on the balcony railing it flashed, went out. If was a signal to a man watching the balcony from the street below, who now in turn signaled to the person who wa directing the stereopticon. Absorbed, Percy Kane had not noticed the flash of the match, not even the intrusion of the stranger upon th balcony. His glance was turned for a final view of the bulletin, ere he left the spot and the hotel. It was no returns that met his eyes now, but a portMit . The portrait of a man, of a face he recognized, was expected to recognize, by the man tumultuously watching him two feet away. As an accusing wraith it confronted Peroy Kane as if a reply to the query what the motive of "the hidden hand" that oas brought to him disaster! From the canvas it looked upon 'his guilty face. "From the dead that nun: murdered Everett Hope!" gasped Kane, reeling baric like one stricken by a thunderbolt. Guilt, dread, horror, were in his tones, his face, his pose. , He turned to fly, for just avenging Heaven seemed at his door-at last ! At that moment he was checked. From his concealment sprang Gideon Hope, his hands encircling the criminal's throat stoutly as band: of stfel ! CHAPTER XI. An aspiration ringing a a hosanna left the lips of Gideon Hope, as his stolkcit fingers met about the shrinking, quivering throat of the man whom be had horntfed down. ITie esctasy of a mighty passino swayed his soul, merging every emotion into one all-absolving conception of vengeance stern, swift, complete. He "had found out his enemy !" the fruition of the task of the years was at hind i self-confessed murderer writhed i'i Ins jowerful grasp, and at his mercy ! V,'s.r. his eyes there seemed to float a blur Oi blood. In lightning-quick series the chair-oscuro of events p.vuted th vivid pictures that grouped about thi pr?i?nt tragic denouement a marvel-fringed history of rare human interest. For this man his victin, i:ow wrttker, swindler political master, rail-' lionaire Gideon Hope had abandoned ambition, position, happiness, peace. He, Percy V. Kane, had robbed him of hi brother and was about to steal from him, too, the woniarf he loved! And now, while the turbulent mob of ward-hee!ers and excited sensation-seekers surged in the street below, amid the crash of all his millions and the disaster of permanent political obliteration, Kane lay In his clutch a broken wretched, cowering thing. i "Listen !" Close to the marble-white face of the prostrate man he had dragged to the floor of the balcony, Hope bent his hot, hissing breath. At riot In his brain ran 11 the formidable facts of guilt with which he had invested his downfall. And the other 6huddered, for he felt that doom, sudden and ure, enmeshed, his wily soul at last. 'Who are you 7' -he panted, struggling to arise. "Who?" a grinding laugh sardonic, full of bitter triumph cut the air. "DieamI Guess remember: the avenger! Go back the years Chicago, your rotten stoci-jobblng swindle, the man you murdered because he had probed your secrets and in another hour would have given the facts to the commercial world ray brother, my brother, Everett Hope!" The name was pronounced in a pob. Religiously at that moment Hope considered himsef the appointed instrument of almost" ine justice. Yet, the thought revived . the sunny-faced brother, so cruelly jt to death, wrung his soul to anguish. "Your brother!" gasped Kane. "The face on the transparency! It was you, then" His striving limbs fell inert, his eyes were horror-stricken. Now he knew ; in a flash he traced the hidden hand, the motive, that had so fatally pursued him from affluence to ruin, from proucLpower to the threshold of the gallows' gate ! "Run down I" he murmurtned, in a lost and .helpless tone. "Yes," came the prompt, discordant reHonse. "I swore it I have achieved it. .And you you have acknowledged all. The face of the dead on yonder canvas Aye! you remember it. It brought confession to your lips ! And I can only drag you to jail ! That does not give me back my brother poor, pitiful recompense. Rut you shall listen, you shall know what tireless resolve has done to rid society of its worst foe. I have snatched - the cup of Croesus from from your lips I have undermined jour every ambition. Thus I have done it. Writhe, weep, rave, but naught will avail you. Your hour has come!" So Gideon Hope fervently believed. This was his moment of triumph. Into the craven, crushed face he shouted his story a record almost hicredible. He did not mention his helpers only of the plain, strong facts he told, of the giant strokes that had assailed the great wall of power and wealth, and battered down every approach, destroyed every drawbridge of escape. He was in a frenzy as he spoke. He could have torn tie wretch In his grasp to pieces, ne felt all his usual calm and steady methods fly to the winds, but he recked little. Here was the climax he had striven for, this the final arraignment, and ha poured forth his soul.

To your feet!" he shouted, suddenly. Kane was brought upright like a child In the grasp of a Hercules. "And then? " chattered his pTiso;ir, incoherent with terror. "Your doom !' "Stop wait !" hotb rantnl Kane. "You can prove nothing absolutely. Let ns bargain. If money " "You have none." "I can secure it." "IIa I" Scorn, disdain cold and entire showed In Hope's eyes. He dras;el his companion toward the open window, ir.tent on proclaiming hi rightful character, first to those who had been his friends, and then to the mob in the streets below. "Wait a moment, I say," pleaded Kane, holding back. "No!" thundered Hope. "You must: You shall:" "Insult then defiance! You scum J" In hot anger Hope released the man, but only to sweep him back with a swift blow he could not restrain. Uoth power r id frenzy -were in the movement, ad he ex-millionaire spun ilrrourh the air, a plaything of caprice.

With n crash' he struck the frail metal ! railing encircling the balcony. Hope, too late appraised of the full power of his blow, and then appalled, saw the railing give. It cracked, broke, brittle, and. shooting the darkness like a falling clod, Kane went speeding outward and then downward, without time to even utter a cry for help or of terror. (To be continued.) COMFORTS OF A SNOW HOUSE. Hovr to 1! ii ltd One unit Me In It netter (ban 'IVnt. The experience of those who tent In the arctic during the colder winter months to l s-.mimariztd alout ns follows : When the tent has beeu pitched the temperature withii; It is some 13 or 20 degrees higher than outside, or ..i degrees If it Is T.0 degrees in the open one is damp and warm from the strenuous exercise of the day, but soon becomes cold and shivers; one crawl! luto his sleeping-bag and make entries la the diary clumsily with one's mittens on ; the beat from one's body forms hoar frost on. everything lit ihe tent, aud congeals In the sleeplug-bag. so that it becomes stlfT nnd heavy with ice during the day's travel when It freezes, and soaking wet when one getJ Into It at idght and thaws It out; this in turn wets one's clothing, and thi trousers aud coat freeze stiff as sole leather when one breaks camp In the morning; the twenty-four hours are a round of wretchedness, nnd the icecrusted tent and Icy sleeping-bags become a heavy lo:ul for the s'ed, writes V. Stefausson in Harper's Magazine. When one follows Eskimo methods the conditions are markedly different On nny treeless open (unless It be perhaps during the first month of winter), an area of compactly drifted snow is easily found ; the snow-knlvcs (of bone or Iron, nccordiug to circumstances) are'brought out ami the surface of thy drift is divided into blocks of domino shape, say3 fourteen by thirty Inches nnd four Inches thick; these are thet placed on edse and end to end in a circle the Flze of the desired ground area of the domeshaped but; then, on the principles of architecture that apply to homes, whether made of stone or snow the beehive house is completed. Two men can in nn hour build a house larpe enough for eight to sleep In. When tl house H completed a doorway is cut In Its side near the ground, skins are spread over the floor, on brushes himself clear of snow as possl Lblo aud crawls lt.sMe. The oil lamps are then lit, and the house is soon brought to a temperature considerably above the freezing point; for snow la one of the best-known nonconductors of heat, and the Intense cold of the outside penetrates the walls only to a very slight degree. Rut when the housi gets warm the Inner side of the snow dome begins to thaw, and the water formed is sucked up Into the snow blotter fashion; when this water ponetrates far enough Into the snow to meet the cold from the outside it freezes, anO oi "snow house is turned into Mi iee ..ihe so strong that a polar bear car crawl over it without danger of breaking through. When once Inside the house the Eskl mos strip naked to the waist and hani their clothes to dry on pegs in the wall. On some Journeys wo had sheet-Irou stoves (procured from whalers In former years), which we Installed In tin snow houses, and In which we buil' roaring fires. One is well placed to take comfort Id the ingenuity of man overcoming harsh environment when, sitting snug, warm and lightly clad, one listens t an arctic blizzard whining helplessly over the ice vault that two hours before was an oval snow bank. I longed for n dressing gown nnd slippers, but one cannot burden' his sled with such luxuries. There was 'no cold to make the hand numb In writing the diary, no frost to congeal on the bed clothing and make them wet, none of the nlght'i discomforts and the morrow's forebod Ings that have been the stock in tradi of the makers of arctic books. And when we. broke camp In the morning Q did not burden the sled with nn Icc stiffened 100-pound tent, but stuck Id our belt the ten-ounce snow-knife, out potential roof for the coming night. A Placarded Throne. On the eve of the Franco-Germ ad war when the Emperor Louis Napoleon entered uiou the conflict whict ended so disastrously to himself and i his countrymen a couple of strangers appeared at a German town. They brought with them n large packing case, which on their arrival was carried to a hotel. Here the unknown vis Itors remained some time and eventu ally disappeared without paying their bill, which amounted to a considerabli sum. The landlord, whose curiosity had often been aroused with reference tc I tho possible contents of the case, at last determined to open It, and on do- j lng so found n handsomely designed i and richly upholstered state chair. This was adorned with the French lin perial anus, eagle and Louis Napoleon's monogram, and beneath It was a musical box which plaj'ed when the cushiou was sat upon. It Is supposed that the throne -fot such It Is believed to have been In the event of success attending the French army was to have been used by the emperor at Ilcrlln after the capture of the German metropolis. Fate, however, spoiled the Imperial plans; hence the sudden and precipitate flight of thi custodians of the chair. The widow of the hotel keeper a few years later sent It to England, where it eventually found a purchaser. Stray Stories. The manager of the first baseball team which won a national championship was Hicks Ilaysburst. He managed the Philadelphia Athletics ir 187L

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What In Poor Man to Do. In office, store and stifling factory air, In laundry, kitchen, restaurant, everywhere. The female toiler works nad ofttimes slaves; And many thousands to untimely graves Are pu.shed by competition's fierce, relentless pace. The timiJ female of our mother's ph. fid day To Amazonian restlessness gives way: "I" train and Subway bear a rush-hour throng Of petticoated workers pushing men along Maid, wife and widow entered in the gruelling race. Short-sighted males, with profit as their aim. Hire women cheaply to advance their game ; Aud by their action, their descendants rob For each three working women destroy one man's job. ExercUe 'ot for Women. A famous physician of late has been calmly pointing out to women the foolishness of physical exercise as a means of resting the mind. He says emphatically that the old theory Is is all nonsense that the nmul cannot rest when the body is tired, lie says that the practice of taking a long walk af a fast trot when one has done a hard day's work is entirely the wrong thing to do. In his words, "It adds ojie fatigue to another." He does not believe In strenuous exercise for wentally overworked people. Another belief of his will cause more excitement and discussion than any Other. "Women," he says, "who do not Indulge in physical exercise live longer than men." He does not think women need exercise. This Ts a daring statement to make in the middle of a generation that is absolutely given over to the exercise fad. ' He is not alone lu this belief, however, for a number of women vho have gone to rack and ruin through physical exercise agree with his theory. Too many women have become useless burdens through over-exercising for this statement to be entirely denied. The theory that athletics gave grace to a woman has been discarded and there is quite a good deal of support given in high quarters to the new theory that heavy exercise unfits a -woman for living her life. The doctor says that plenty of fresh air day and night and one hour's walk is enough for any woman. Ilegarding the subject of the annual vacation for women the doctor says : "Nine out of ten women feel worse after . vacation than when they started and are unaMe to resume work properly. A woman does not need a long rest, but a great number of short ones. It is better to rest four separate half hours a day than to go like mad through the week ard rest sixteen hours on Sunday. It Is better to divide the twelve months cf work into stated half holidays rather than take two months after ten months of exhaustion." HAMF Fox furs are the leaders. Sleeves cannot grow any smaller. All the latest coats are directoire. Millinery wings are larger than ever. I)iig lines characterize every garment. The big pillow muff supersedes all others. In belts proper elastic will Ik? the most popular. Not for years has rarted hair Ieen so fashionable. The one-piece dresses lead all others In popularity. The neck outline of bodices is likely to grow higher. Padded pipings with soutache are leading decorations. Önly the skimpiest ox petticoats are allowed with long skirts. Cozy Mttle fur coats are to be Meal wear for youngsters. New skirts are generally plain, while bodices are highly ornate. Green tulle Is usd In big bows at the neck or some place on the hat. There Is no abatement of the rage for taupe color and amethyst shades. The Psyche knot is now much in vogue and looks well with the new turban. Fur wraps for evening wear are cut three-cornered like the old-fashioned shawl. Skirts are to be no longer, but we are likely to see a new outline on the train. The coats that belong to dressy suits or those worn with elaborate gowns are very long. Keeping Ferns. It is said that ferns may bo kept fresh by giving them a steaming of three hours. Once every week or so they should be put into the bathroom, shutting all windows and doors of the room to keep in the steam. The betiitub should then be filled with hot water. It will give out a good steam. The room should not be feolod suddenly after this Is done. By treating the ferns to this bath It is not necessary to wash and spray the leaves, which does not give so satisfactory a result. Have Inviting Hall. Many persons think that because a hall Is merely nn entrance, or passage, it may be bare and unfurnished. On the other hand, the hall is the entrance to the home, and may be considered as offering the hospitailty of the house. If so regarded, it should be cheerful and Inviting, even though in city houses there Is little opportunity for a display of taste and skill. At least it is always possible to secure a warm, hospitable color. When la Woman Old? A Chicago young women's club has drawn the line against women over 40 years of age, on the theory that a woman past 40 Is no longer to be class-

GIRLS OF Baltimore Sim. ed as young. Naturally there Is a vigorous protest, and many of the members threaten to resign. Of course t'cre Is no disgrace in old age rather honor in it. Age is one of the very few things over which we have no control whatever, and for which we are neither to be blamed nor credited. Old age is honorable because it Is the result of long right living. The vicious, the careless and tin? slothful never attain it. It Is by right living, by obedient observance of the laws of nature, that we notonly live to be old but seem to le younger than we really are. It Is just ns much n matter of pride for one to look and feel like 40 at -00 a it is for one to bo hale at 00. Though there Is no disgrace in growing old there Is decided Inconvenience in it. economically, physically and socially The woman who feels 40 naturally does not like fo be classified and associated with .women who feel UO. If she i bright and young in spirit she wants t continue to be so regarded by brigh and young people. Vanity really h:i very Utile part in it. The woman'; happiness and her sympathetic relationship with the young nnd vigorous depend on it. She has a right to ii; i sist that he be taken at the age sh feels and shows. For Conversation Party. Twelve good topics that will Ix amusing "as well as entertaining are here given: tc g Shot uld women vote? What would you do with a million dollars? How to keep house ou $10 a week. How to be happy though married. How to be hajiy though single. Is a college education necesstry? What was your most thrilling exigence? Tell fltc lest joke ever played on you. Should the girls propose? What Is your favorite hobby? What trip would you rather take? Who Is your favorit novelist? The Marrlase At?e. The marriage age in Austria Is- 14 years for both sexes; Germany, the man at IS. the woman at 14; IJelgiuni. the man at IS, the woman at 15; Spain, the man at 14, the woman at 12; Mexico, with parental consent, 10 nnd 18, otherwise 21 for Ioth; France, the man at IS, the woman at 13; Greece, the man at 11, the woman at 12; Hun-' gary. Catholics, tho man at 14, the woman at 12; Protestants, the man at IS, the woman at 13;; Portugal, the man at U, the woman at 12; Russia, the man at 18, the woman at 13; Saxony, the man at 18, the woman at 10; Switzerland, the man at 14, the woman at 12. Secret of Xfrvonn Balance. Itev. Samuel McComb has written a few rules to guide a woman In keeping her nervous balance. Here they are: Cultivate sound, health-creating emotionlove, Joy, peace, faith and hoic. Allow yourself sufficient time In which to do your work. Hold in reserve a surplus stock of r.ervous energy by keeping within the limit of your organization. Do one thing at a time. Prepare yourself In good season for sleep. Trust in the infinite goodness of God, who loves every creature He has made. To Open the Pores. To remove blackheads, and also to soften the skin before applying cold creams and lotions, npplya soft linen towel 'wrung out of moderately hot water. Do not have the water hot enough to burn the skin. Apply the towel to the face, pressing It well down into the curves of the eyes, nose and mouth. IJepeat several times until the skin Is pink nnd soft. In this condition It will absorb much more of the oils and lotions, greatly Increasing their effective properties. The Laced Oreraklrt. A designer has brought out a new thing in the-way of tunics. It Is cut circular, is a trifle high waisted and instead of having a box plait down the side It Is slashed open, finished with a two-inch hem at tho edge, and Is then laced from side to sld? through sllkcovered eyelets. Silk or velvet ribbon Is used. The Correct Time for Bathlnjc. The morning is the best time for a cold-water bath, a tep'd one morning or night, but a hot-water bath should be taken Just before retiring, Inasmuch as it is relaxing. Never bathe Just after a hearty meal. Ilathe regularly every day. The Son Reader. According to a new oracle, human beings are divided Into two distinct categories, the free individual and the collective type. The tree Individual

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bears the Imprint of absolute value the collective type Is Indelibly marked with the signs of relative value. It is chiefly through the eyes, the mirrors of the soul, that a new occultist reads the depths of our inner natures. If the eye Is luminous, the mind Is full of light; if the eye Is troubled, vague or dull, the iudividuaUs somber and shadowy. The clear, transparent and profound eye reveals the genius of the sower or the charmer ; the hard and "okl eye shows the power of the doininator, of the director or the vanquisher. Effective Evening Gown. Man's for Indoors. Instead of fur there is now a muß of white or pastel colored marabou, which is to be carried at any formal indoor function. It Is not supped to give warmth or to be of any use. It is merely an effective toiich. In it, ns in most other muffs, there Is a wide pocket of satin which holds the purse, the card case and the handkerchief. It is not very large, this muff, and it is so soft and fluffy that It goes charmingly with a long sweeping Indoor frock of some brilliant color. Ue Soda in Dlnhwashlns. Washing soda can make dishwashing easier. Sprinkle one teaspoonful In the roasting pan, put in plenty of water, and let boil a few minutes. Even the corners will be found to be free from grease. Covers, frying pans, bread tins, can be cleaned by boiling for a few minutes in this solution. .Silver, too, can le cleaned by boiling It a minute or two in a weak solution of washing soda. Rinse in clean, hot water and wipe with soft cloth or chamois. v Rnbber-aoled Shoea. Women who are good walkers and who do not fear the roads or pavements In any kind of weather, have rubber soles put on their walking shoes. This also prevents fatigue, as rubber Is lighter to walk In than the ordinary heavy rubber sole. Rubber caps are also added to heels to make walking easier. They nre said to prevent a constant vibration to the spine. Hint Abont Tinware. If new tinware is rubbed over with fresh lard and thoroughly heated in an oven before used, It will never rust afterward, no matter how much It Is put In water. To clean stained tin ware use borax; this brings the best results. A discolored teapot or coffee pot may be made to look like new by boiling In a strong solution of borax for a short time. To Ilanic Heavy Washing. . To protect the corners of sheets, tablecloths and blankets when ready to hang on the line after washing double in center, bringing ends together, then throw ends over line, pinning securely. There will be no switched-out corners when they are dried In this way. Clennltneas Is Necessary. The scalp, like the rest of the body, to be kept healthy, must be kept clean. Shampoo your hair once every two weeks If it is inclined to be oily, and about once a month If It is the least bit dry. Why It Went Oat. In the parlor there were three; Girl, the parlor lamp and he; Two is company, no doubt. That is why the lamp went out. Princeton Tiger When She Is 25. After celebrating the 25th anniversary of her birth, the average woman's chief aim in life is to not look her age. Chicago News.

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Forty persons have now been sent from Terre Haute to Chicago for the Pasteur treatment, and It is thought all danger from the threatened epidemic of h3drophobla Is passed. Noble and "Whitley County farmers who have been holding sheep and hogs for better prices united In a shipment of eighteen double-deck cars from Churubusco last week. The stock was consigned to East Buffalo, N. Y. The latest traction report at Nashville is that Joseph Irwin, of the Indianapolis, Columbus & Southern, is making plans to build an electric line from Columbus, via Nashvill-j, to Uloomington. Inquiries have been made in regard to franchises and right-of-way. Several days ago the daughter of Theodore Stoltz, a pioneer furniture manufacturer of Evansville, died, and in a few days Stoltz died of grief. A few days later the widow of Stoltz died. Stoltz was formerly a resident of Cincinnati and well known along the Ohio Valley. The large frame barn on the farm of George W. Godard. near 'Horner, burned recently. Several hundred bnshels of corn, a number of farm Implements, harness, etc., were destroyed and the hay mow had just been filled with shredded fodder. The loss will exceed $1,500; partly. Insured. Some person who refused to give his name telephoned to the Terre Haute police that a mule driver at Vandalia mine, two miles west of Terre Haute, pulled the tongue out of a mule's head when he -was exasperated with the animal. The police notified the officers of the Humane Society and they are investigating the story. The $3,000 damage suit filed against Col. W. A. Oliphant, a druggist of Pet- ' ersburgr, by Mrs. Celista Craig, allegi lng that Oliphant had sold her hus band liquor, on which he had become Intoxicated, and while in that condition had attempted to, rob John Hammond, secretary of the Sunshine Building & Loan Company, several months a go,, has been withdrawn. Elkhart's new $80,000 school building was formally opened by a very elaborate program, of which State Superintendent Fassett A. Cotton's address wjas the principal feature. This building is one of the best equipped and most modern in the northern part of the State. It Is constructed of Bedford 6tone, two stories high and contains twenty rooms, the entire building having a seating capacity of 800. It is equipped with a very efficient system of fire escapes. The friends of Frederick A. Miller, editor of the South Bend Tribune, are "feeling" the sentiment regarding his candidacy for mayor of South Bend on the Republican ticket In' the coming city campaign. Concerning Mr. Miller, the South Bend News said: "It is claimed by his friends that Mr. Miller is the strongest candidate that can be found and they say that he has al ways been a hard worker for the party without making any claims for any public office and is entitled to be con sidered in the race for mayor." Grant County may hare thirteen for tner sheriffs living, but Hamilton Coun ty has fifteen, all but two of whom are still living In the county. Charles Mor row has been farming in Kansas sev eral years, and George Bragg Is a rest dent of Howard County. The other former sheriffs living are Levi Newcomer, T. J. Lindley, David Patty, Geo. Nagle, Evan Bray, Elihu Hawkins, V A. Semans, A. J. Fryberger, Philip Uhoades, J. P. Bradfield, J. A. Owen, and L. It. Haworth. Hamilton County also has thirteen former treasurers living. Acting upon the authority of the dog muzzling ordinance, which was signed by Mayor Shattuck, the police force of Brazil carried shotguns and killed unmuzzled dogs as fast as they were found. Ten dogs were killed In one day, some of them being valuable hunting dogs, whose owners believed the ordinance was for a ' bluff." As soon as. the reports of the shots were heard, dog owners began scurrying to get their dogs under cover, while the children were sent to the various stores for muzzles. The warfare on the dogs will be continued until every, unmuzzled dog In the city is killed. William H. Scott's general store at Newbern, Bartholomew County, was almost wrecked when a mule team owned by Michael Baah. of that place, became frightened at a herd of wild mules which William Mobley, a stock dealer, was driving. The tame mules could not stand the sight of their wild brothers and sisters and immediately toolt on a wild streak of their own. They dashed into the front window of the store, smashing the glass. Inside the window they tore away a showcase and spilled its contents on the floor. Then the wagon caught on the window casing and their progress was stopped. Meeting his old school teacher In Richmond, William Baldwin, who had punished him twenty-five years ago, Robert Gamble repaid the whipping affair by assaulting him. Gamble was arrested. While hunting near Oakland City, Levi Reed, well-known farmer, attempted to drag his gun after him through a barbed wire fence. One of the triggers caught on a wire, discharging the gun. Reed's left hand was torn entirely off by the charge. Harold, the 7-year-old son of Charles P. Voshell and wife, living on a farm near Lawrenceburg, was operated on for appendicitis. A small round glass button was removed from his appendix. The chiTd is in a critical condition and his recovery is doubtful. A novel contest Is being waged be tween the Christina Sunday School, of OwensvlUe, and the Old Union Sunday School, south of that city. The school having the largest attendance for a certain number of weeks will be the guest of the loser at a supper to be given at the expiration of the contest. Gibson County trappers are giving up their vocation because the fur is so thin that the hides have scarcely any value. This is said to be a sure indication that the winter is to be a mild one. State Pure Food and Drug Inspector Owens made a flying visit and caught several Brazil merchants napping. Two of them were arrested and fined to the extent of $17.50. The arrests were on the charge of violating the sanitary features of the pure food law. Mr. Owens says that other prosecutions will be made there.

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Southern wa?. destroyed by fire. Tho building and stock of good3 was owned by Wililam Stephens. Loss, $2,000. The Rev. and Mrs. Earl Davis, who left their home in Greenfield three years ago to become missionaries in South Africa, have siven up the work and are on their vay home. Despondent because he could not give up drinking, Philip Wilson, aged 40, of Vincennes, shot himself In the head, death being instantaneous. A widow and three children Burvive him. The Knights of Pythias of Newcastle, one of the largest lodges in the State, is making preparations for tho annual roll call meeting, which will be held this year on Monday evening, December 14. There is joy in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Lucas, of Nashville. They are entertaining a boy baby who ar- -rived recently. The mother is 16 years old, while its grandmother, Mrs. Randolph Penrose, is in her thirty-second year. The mascot of the Indiana University football team, which Journeyed to Lafayette recently, was a Brown County hoot-owl, captured a week ago, and siuce then adorning a window of a downtown store. The owl was bedecked with cream and crimson ribbons and taken to Lafayette by a crowd of Enthusiastic students. A dog thought to have been mad. was killed at Clinton after it had bitten six or eight other dogs and killed a cat. Dr. C. E. Ragan, health officer, sent the head of the dog to Indianapolis to have it examined for evidences " c rabies. In case evidences are found, an order will be issued for the immediate muzzling of all dogs. The churches of Covington united and will hold a big revival meeting for a month. The building in Third street belonging to James Slim, has been overhauled and fitted with seats for 1,000 people. The meetings will be conducted by the Rev. I. E. Honeywell, evangelist, who will be assisted by the Rev. A. S. Phelps. The meetings are to be non-sectarian. Thomas Eiler, cf Bloomington, president of the Association of the Survivors of the Battle of Stono River, is arranging for a reunion of these reterans at Danville December 31. There are about 500 survivors of the famouj .battle in this State and as many in Ohio and Illinois. The principal speaker, so far as is now known, w'U be Judge Howe, of Indianapolis. Nicholas Darrell, a fur buyer, of Morocco, for a time believed that this season would eclipse all previous winters in the number of black skunk, but later he was chagrined to. discover that fully two-thirds of the supposed black skins purchased ty him were what Is known as "broad stripe," colored black wth printer's Ink. Darrell paid fullj double what the colored skins were v orth. The rear seat of an automobile in which Mrs. Henry Bradley and Mrs. . B. E. White, of Wabash, were riding, slipped ff as the car was going at a high speed. The ladies were left a mile behind in the roadway before Mr. White and the chauffeur in the front seat of the car learned of tho mishap. Mrs. White was painfully hurt in the fall from the speeding machine. Typhoid is fast assuming the proportions of an epidemic in Jeffersonville, and the number of certain cases can not be less than forty, with fully that number more under observation of the doctors, but not yet developed far enough for diagnosis. The water from various sources, contaminated on account of the long drought, is under suspicion, and Mayor E. N.. Flynn, who is also a physician. Is urging that all water shall be boiled. Tie following warning has been issued: You'd better boil your water. And mind what you're about; For the Typhoid Germ will get you Ef yer don't watch out. Oscar Furr, a luncie policeman, has, he believes, the champion rabit dog of the State. When he goes hunting he does not take a gun, bissole "weapon" being this Aerdale dog. It can catch any rabbit that Jumps, according to the policeman. One day last week Furr and the dog went Into the country and Furr stopped at a farmhouse to talk with the farmer."" While the two were conversing the dog disappeared and, search as they would for the valuable animal, he could not be found. A little while later they heard a Joyful yelring and. looking out, saw the Aerdale coming toward the bouse with a rabbit in his mouth. De-' positing the rabbit, the Intelligent dog proceeded again to the woods and while Furr sat on the doorstep at the farmer's house his dog brought to him thirty-eight rabbits that he had killed, alone, in the woods and fields. Putting the rabbits in his game bags, Furr came back to town and distributed them among his friends on the police force. . The largest yield, of corn reported In the vicinity of Bourbon is that of C W. Shakes, who owns a farm that was formerly swamp land. The yield was a fraction over one hundred bu&hels to the acre. The parsonage attached to St. Peter's (German lteformed) church, tour miles northeast of Clay City, was destroyed by fire. Loss $1,300, no insurance. About all the obn tents were burned, also, including a valuable library. Henry Funk celebrated his ninetyninth birthday at his home, near Elizabeth, sixteen m'lea southwest of New Albany. He lives on a farm which he obtained from the Government more than seventy-five years ago. He is in good health mentally and physically. The two shows of the Gentry Broth- r ers arrived from the South last wee!:.' and for the first time in years both shows will mcke their winter quarters in Bloomington. T"e shows have been in the South most of the season, and the business has been very satisfactory. A forest fire, which was started by hunters, is sweeping over the western part of Brown County, twelve miles west of Columbus, burning an area of over 1,000 acres. Claude Parker, of near Flora, recently shot cji owl or an eagle. The bird is on exhibition at Flora and is attracting considerable attention. Its head and face resemble very much that of an owl, having the circled eyes, while the body and wings are li.e those of an eagle and its bill and feet are more like that of an easle. The bird measure i five feet from Up 4e tip.