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Race BY" HAWLEY CHAPTER II. (Continued.) "'.Thanks ; but you have not told me yet whether you enjoyed your ball." "Yes. that I did ; I got lots of dancing, and I do like that, you know. But how about yourself, Gren? I don't think you quite did your duty." "Pretty fairly, I fancy. We can't be expected to consummate the amount of pirouetting that your sex delight in. I danced a good deal, and it vras real pleasure to me to see the little sensation you made. I like to see my pretty cousin appreciated as she should be, and taking her legitimate position in the county." "And what's that, pray?" "Why, as the belle of all Hampshire, of course. I wish, though, you hadn't danced with that fellow Pearman last night. I've a sort of presentiment ill will come of it." "You stupid Grenville; what can come of it? I am not likely to see him again for months perhaps never. At the worst, recognition of his existence on meeting is all that quadrille entails." "Well, I suppose j ou are right Maude : but it is time I was off. Good-by." And Grenville's pulse tingled a little, as his lips touched the fair cheek so quietly yielded to him. "Kind regards to my uncle and aunt ; and drop me a line now and then." "Don't le afraid of that," laughed Miss Denison ; "don't I always write to joa when I want anything? and am I not always wanting something? I think the past might testify in my favor. Goodby; don't be Ions before you come and see us again." Grenville Ho pondered moodily over his visit, as he dro-e to the station. He hid not quite mastered the fact that he was in love with his cousin, but he had arrived at some close apprehensions on the subject. lie felt that he would have been a good deal better satisfied had his parting salute been much less easily accorded. Maude, fresh as a rose, after a- tarn round the garden, con es in just in time to jrreet her mother on her return to the dining room. Petting her mother is one of the chief pleasures of Maude Denisou's life. On this occasion she conducts her into the easychair next the fire, makes the tea, and then, drawing a stool near. Beats herself at Mrs. Denison's feet, and wit'j girlish delight recounts all her suceessei of the previous night; to which the fond mother listens with quiet happiness, as her hand pla3s with her daughter's silken tresses. That nobody could eclipse, that nobody could ever be worthy of mating with her peerless Maude, was a thing that Mrs. Denison would have deemed absurd to argue. "And, mother, dear," said the girl, at last, "Grenville said, before he went away this morning, I was quite the belle of the LalL What do you think of your daughter now? Won't that satisfy papa, although" he did grumble so about the expense of the dress?" "Yes, love. He will be quite contented when he hears how thoroughly you enjoyed yourself. I am only so sorry that I was not strong enough to have been present myself at my darling's success." Harold Denison entered the room in Iiis usual listless fashion. He kissed his daughter carelessly, asked if she had enjoyed her ball, scarce listened to her affirmation, and then plunged at once into the letters and papers that lay piled alongside his plate. He was a tall, slight, handsome man, with a keen, cold eye and rather undecided mouth, verging on fifty years of age. The slightly grizzled eyebrows knit tu he skimmed his correspondence. Dans, lawyers letters anent mortgages and sundry other liabilities, formed the stable of the daily missives that constituted the accompaniment to his breakfa?!. Can it be wondered that the man's temper was soured? that the whilom gay frolic squire of Glinn had become a cold, caustic and selfish man of the world? "Things seem to be gettiuj worse and worse, Eleanor," he observed, throwing down an epistle on the best superfine blue post, and sipping his tea moolily. "The old cry from Reynolds and Gibst -n that that interest on th' mortgage will be due next month, and b-vging prompt settlement this time, as the fellow is getting rather uneasy about the stability of the security, on account of the delay of last half-year. It will be hard to scrape the money together. Sheep, too, are down to nothing almost so Thompson tells me er else I have a hundred to sell that I looked to to help me through with this." Mrs. Denison sighed. She had gone through a good many such breakfasts in Lex time, and felt sis helpless as ever in suggesting expedients for the occasion. "It's very unfortunate," she said at length. "Mr. Pearman is not pressing, at all events, I hope." "No; he has the grace to remember that two-thirds o: the property have already fallen into his hands. He is always tolerably lenient about his money. The fellow knows, moreover, that his is the first mortgage on the estate; and, I daresay, at times looks forward to being the eventual owner of Glinn. Shouldn't wonder if he was, too, some, of these days," muttered Denison bitterly. "I used to grieve once, Nell, that we hadn't a son; I begin to think now it was all for the best. I should feel it more If I had to think that my boy would never be master here. Yet that is pretty well how the case would stand if we had one." "Providence knows what is best for us, Harold," returned his wife, softly; "it was a sore source of trouble to us nee; but, as you say, it spares us some bitter thoughts now." She associated herself with him in his career of extravagance as if she had been equally to blame, though, as far as her gentle nature dared, she had entered more than one meek remonstrance at his reckless career. But Mrs. Denison was not the woman to throw her husband's faults continually in his teeth. It was all done now, past recall; still, as far as it lay within her power, the wife was willing to bear her share of the burden Harold Denlson's folly had entailed on his family. nd pray, Miude, did Mr. Pearman honor Xminster with his presence last night?" inquired her father, sarcastically. "Young Mr. Pearman was there, but not the old man. He seemed to know a good many peopl there. Mr. Brisden " "Yes, it's the old story. The old county families are swept away by these spinners, brewers, solicitors, and such like. Another hundred years, and there won't be one of the old names left in the neighborhood." Breakfast is over. Mffnde flits away to her own little sanctum, with its piano, books, and budding camellias; Mrs. Denison goes off for a conference with the old housekeeper; while the squire betakes himself to his study, to struggle with figores and hold gloomy converse with Thompson, his farm bailiff. The mother and daughter do not feel much mental perturbation about the difficulties that threaten them. For the last five years have they not heard Mr. Denison discourse in the same melancholy strain? Constant jeremiads lose their effect: they thought little of the growling of the storm. Bat Harold Deniscn, as he sat puzzling his head in his room over that complication of figures, knew that things l4d pretty well reached their climax, and

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for a Wife SMART that it would be hard to predicate even how many months he should still remain Denison of Glinn. CHAPTER III. In the very modern but extremely comfortable dining room of Mannersley, the Pearmans, father and son, are sitting. The old man has turned seventy, and can hardly be said to look as if his money-grubbing career had agreed with him. He is shrunk and worn, with a stoop in his shoulders. Altogether, he wears the aspect of a man whose constitution Is beginning to break up. Wealth is not amassed without much wear and tear of mind and constitution, and your great turf speculators seldom attain a patriarchal age. He draws his chair closer to the blazing grate. "I think I've got a bit of a cold. Sam," he remarked. "Better me than Coriander, though, isii't it?" "Well, father, I am sorry for you; but I don't suppose it will be much harm in your case." "How did he go this morning?" "Well, I wasn't there ; but Stephen tells me h. did a good steady gallop. If he keeps right, he'll about win the Two Thousand.' " , "Yes," chuckled the old man. "I've been racing now getting on fifty years, and I don't think I ever saw my way into a much better thing than this looks like. We've got on, too, at a very pretty price, take it all around. It will be a hottish Monday for some of them." "I hope so ; but there's one or two tlr.ngs I want to talk to you about. There's young Sheflington; he's a crackbrained young fool, and I've got him do-vn in my book to the tune of a loser of twdve hundred if Coriander wins. Now, you have done business with him is he good for that amount?" "Yes, Sam yes. We'll get that from him in time; but I doubt there'll be a bit of waiting for it. Don't take long odds from him again. What else?" "Well, Flashington stands to lose a thousand to us. He doesn't bear' the character of a very good pay." "He's the biggest thief in England; but he'll pay we, though he don't everybody." "And why you, in particular?' inquired his son. "Because he made a mistake about his name in early life, Sam; and he is quite aware that I know it, and could rake up evidence enough against him, if he irritated me, to make things, to say the f least of it, very unpleasant, as far as he is concerned." "Gool ! Then, with a little pressure, that'll be good money, if it's won, eh?" "Jus? so," nod Jed the fat he. "Now, we'll come to something else. Just listen to this. I've pretty well come to the conclusion that I had better get married." "I don't see any reason you should not; on the contrary, I should like to see it Not going to make a fool of yourself, I suppose?" and the old man looked keenly at his son. , "Tell you more about it when it corner off; but certainly not, I think, in the design. We've made a good bit of money betwe?n us. I'm not going to say it isn't most of it yours; still, since I have been having a share in the concern, I've put some together myself. Now, what I want in marriage is connection, more , than money." "Yes yes. I think you are right; but there will be difficulties difficulties, I fear." "Of course there will, "to a certain extent; there always is about getting anything worth having in this world; but money is a key to most things nowadays. Tottering coronets must be propped by wealthy alliances. The parson or doctor marries the rich tallow chandler's widow. Marriage is a social contract in these times. A hundred thousand pounds from Manchester st;nds out for strawberry leaves in the coronet, while a fifth of the money from Birmingham is quite content to put up with an Honorable. Well, to return to what I was saying, i you agree with "J:e that I must look out more for connection than money, don't you?" "Ys, I think that's best; but it would do no harm if you could see your way into a trifle Of property besides." "Exactly. I was at the Xminster ball last night, and the prettiest girl in the room was the daughter of old Denison of Glinn. , I got introduced to her; danced with her, and did quite as well as anyone could expect to do in a first dance just made her acquaintance, in fact. Now that's the lady I've marked down as my intended." "Yes," said the old man musingly, "that might do if we could bring it about ; but he's a proud man, the father very." "We'll come to that presently. Just listen while I reckon up all the advantages. First of all, I have taken a fancy to the girl. She's a real beauty, every inch of her. In the next place, she's an only child. Consequently, it's only fair to suppose that Glinn and what's left with it will eventually fall to her. We Live got most of the old property now ; and that would insure the whole thing being in our hards at last." "Yours, Sam. yours. It is not likely I'd last to see it. Harold Denison is full twenty years younger than I am, and his wife is younger again; they'll see me out, boy." "Well, father, it's no use denying it may be so. Still, in days to come, I should be Pearman of Glinn; and with a wife of their own class, it would be hard if I didn't take my place in the county." "Yes, you should manage it, though I have failed; but you've had advantages I hadn't, Sam. You've a pull, you see, in education ; I hadn't much. The art of making monev I taught myself, and it didn't leave time for learning a deal of anything else. You start with a tidy lot made; and I think I have shown you enough to insure your not making ducks and drakes of it" "No, 1 don't think I shall hurt. I can take care of myself prettjr well at most games on the board. I never dabble in anything I don't understand. Don't yo" make yourself uneasy about me, governor. Now, Denison is a poor man, is he not?" "Yes; he has well on to three thousand a year nominal rental left still: but there's more than one mortgage on the property, let alone other charges." "Haven't you some money on the property yourself?" "Ten thousand, Sam, and I'm first mortgagee; but I know there's a second mortgage of the samt amotmt, and there may be more for all I know." "Well, these, you see, are all points in my favor. We could make this first mortgage quite easv f- h'm. at all events." "It's a deal of money ten thousand pounds; but of course it would be different if the whole property looked like coming to you at last." "Well, then, we must take that second mortgage also into our own hands, and let it stand at very easy interest. It will be only virtually allowing Denison so much a year during his lifetime, and in the long run will fall principally upon me. "Yes; but I don't follow the meaning of all this, Sam." '"That's just what I am about to ex

plain to you. My chances of meeting Miss Denison are so extremely few, that It is quite impossible I can arrive at asking for her hand in that way. My only chance is your proposing it to her father, and asking him to accord me permission to try if I can win his daughter's hand. Mind, that is the way you must put it; but don't forget that you will have to bring your pecuniary hold over him into play also only, do it gently." "You may trust me; I have pulled the strings in so many ways in my time, that I've learnt to be pretty cute about doing it with a delicave touch. I'll help you all I can when. I've made my mind quite up about it." , (To be continued.

"SKULLCAP'S" USE IN RABIES. Tills Herb Is Said to Have lOneeted Cures a Century Ago. In view of the public interest In hydrophobia, certain physicians have suggested that th attention of research laboratories be called to an herb used about a century ago in the treatment of this disease, says the New York Post. The herb Is the Scutellaria lateritloria whose common name is skullcap or maddog herb. In 1S12, Dr. James Thaehor, a Massachusetts physician, issued a book entitled : ''Observations on Hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog or other rabid animal, with an examination of the various theories and methods of cure existing at the present day, and an Inquiry Into, the merit of Specific Remedies. Also a Method of Treatment best adapted to th Brute Creation." The book mentions many hydrophobia nostrum cures, such ;s "the liver of the mad dog broiled." '"Cray fish burnt with twigs of bryony," the "East India Remedy." "Sir George Cobb's Powder," the "Pulvis Antilyssiis" of Dr. Mead, the renowned "Omskirk Mtnlicine," and others that passed into disrepute. Among them was "Crous Remedy," a nostrum so celebrated as to have Induced the New York Legislature, 1S00, to purchase the formula, for which It paid $1,000; "Webb's Medicine"; and the "Snake Stone," now known as the "Mad Stone." Having the record of many cases In which Scutellaria was used with apparent success. Dr. Tliaeher concluded that the drug should be exhaustively tested, and for several years afterward It received much attention from the medical profession. According to the treatise issued recently by the Lloyd brothers of Cincinnati. Dr. Lyman Spalding read a paper in September, 1S1!, before tin- New York Historical Society, in which he gave Dr. Van Derveer, a New Jersey physician, credit for being "the first person, so far as we have leen able to iearn, who used Scutellaria as a preventive of hydrophobia from the bite of rabid animals." It is said that Dr. Vail Deiveer treated more than-400 persons, losing only two eases, and says Dr. Spalding: "Dr. Van Derveer made more than 100 experiments on the ant'dotal powers of the skullcap, -in each of which the remedy was given to a part of the bitten animals, none of which were alllicted with hydrophobia; but in every Instance some of the animals which did not take the skullcap died rabid." Dr. Spalding summed" up his testimony by saying that the Scutellaria had been used by more than SÖO tktsous, bitten by animals believed to be rabid, and in only three instances did symptoms supposed to be hydrophobia supervene; "in two of them the symptoms disappeared on taking more freely of the medicine." No Natura Fake. "You certainly run up against funny things In the country," said the young mar. who had just returned from down State, where his unde has a large farm. "On the way up to my uncle's house I had to pass the stock yards, where he kept a lot of pigs. As I pase0 those hundreds of pigs seemed t. b having a regular stampede or panic of some kind they were rushing madly about, apparently looking for s- uiethlng. I watched them for quite a v.hlle, but could see nothing but a small woodpecker sitting on the fence. When i got to the house I asked Uncle Jim what on earth Avas the natter with his hogs, they seemed so excited. " That so? Well, it was this waythere was a spell back some weeks when I had a bad cold, lost my voice, and couldn't call those critters to their feed, so I got the Idea of brlngln' theic to the troughs by tappln my stick on the wooden fence, and ever since them pesky woodpeckers came rojnd the hogs Just go crazy, thlnkin' I m callin them to give thera somethin to eat.' " Chicago Inter Ocean. A Youthful Magnate. "Yes," began Mr. Peters, Sr., "John Peters, Jr., has quit sehool and accepted a position In Davis' general store." "Indeed!" commented the summer visitor. "What are his duties?" "He is superintendent of the cracker and cheese department," replied Mr. Peters, Sr., with guarded satisfaction. "He has the entire charge of wrapping up the chPese." Youth's Companion. Bow to Grow Peanuts. Peanuta only thrive in a warm climate. The plant requires a limey, sandy loam, and yields from two bushels of pods planted an acre to as much as 40 or W bushels of pods and two tons of straw. The seed Is planted about one Inch deep in rows from 23 to SO Inches apart, and from 11' to Id Inches in the row. Flattery. Wedderly My dear, you have Iraproved wonderfully in your music since we were married. Mrs! Wedderly Why, John, how can you say that when I no longer play or sing? Wdderly That's where the improvement comes In. Donibardril, "Ah, my man," said the good old parson, "you should always be 'looking up.' " "Not me, parson." responded the farmer with much emphasis. "Not with all these here chaps in airships and balloons throwing over sand and cigar stubs." PlauKlble. "The trouble with this tooth," said the dentist, probing it with a long slender Instrument, "Is that the nerve Is dying." "It seems to me, doctor," groaned the victim, "you ought to treat the dyim: with a little more respect." Ilxnctly. Roderick The "cream of society' from our town was there, but they lo( ketl small beside the Newport set. Van Allert I I'm ! Sort of coudeuiet cream, eh?

Life of the Shop Girl. The small-town girl, driven from her town by the financial collapse of her family or else by the birth of a spirit of independence In her own mind, with no home except her handbag and no support except her courage, advances to the center of the stage in a large city to make good. She has a man's problem. She gets a woman's wage. Six dollars a week. How will she live? The ready suspicion crosses your mind, the yellow suspicion of yellow sociology. Don't adopt it too lightly. Watch that girl's struggles. See her settling down to pass her six-dollars-a-week novice period in a girls' clubhouse, says Everybody's. She sleeps in a room with three other girls. She pays ?2.73 a week for her bed, her breakfast and her dinner. She gets two sandwiches and an apple for 5 cents when she leaves the club In the morning, and she consumes them at noon in a store lunchroom along with a cup of coffee. She doesn't send many of her, clothes to a public laundry. She washes them in the club laundry at a tub rental of 5 cents an hour. When her absolutely unavoidable expenditures for room, board, cat fare and laundry have been met, she has 51. Gr left. For new clothes, r.he hunts bargains In materials and does her own manufacture, after working hours, on the club sewing machine. For books, magazines and newspapers slÄ uses the club reading room and the circulation department of the free public library. For amusements she joins a singing society and attends the free concerts and lectures with which the winter season of every large city is plentifully sprinkled. These really selr-supportintr girls. Sim

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Olymplo Cloth. There is a new cloth called Olympic cord, which bean a resemblance to the dead-and-gone Bedford cord, but, like all other materials, it js softer than the old-time fabrics. Our Illustration was made from a gown constructed from the Olympic cord variety, very light in weight end black in color. It Is a princess model, with long, clinging skirt and bodice, in surplice fashion, one long end falllDg almost to bottom of skirt and finished with long, deep, black sills fringe.

subjected to the severest economic pressure, are likewise the most commercially successful, the most morally impregnable. Much sympathy has been claimed for them because they can't live on $G a week. The real sympathy they deserve is because they do. Prar.lnic n Ded. Reading In bed, like most luxuries, can be overdone; in fact there seems td be only one excuse for this fascinating way of ending the day, says the Family Doctor. Certain people find that their worries accumulate In their brains after bedtime; their nerves are at high tension, and their minds are actively at work trying to solve problems that should have been left lehind In the city. Oo'ng to led with the brain in such a state means tha-t, with nothing to distract the thoughts, hearing nothing and seeing nothing in the darkness. Imagination lias full sway, and hours of wakefulness may be the result. Such a man, we think, will find half an hour's reading in bed a great help. With carefr? attention paid to the quality and position of the light, so that without flickering It shines over the shoulder and directly onto the page, the much-maligned habit of reading In bed has sometimes a very beneficial effect upon a tired and overwakeful brain. lloen and lint. A strikingly beautiful and practical hat is a large shape, such as we show In cut, covered with black satin and ,rz trimmed with a TZfe'ÖS vvreath of gorgeous lfäWfcpj velvet roses, shading Trom deep, dark red to light American Beauty, with just enough foliage to give a touch of nature. Any color rose could be used with equally good result 1'nterpriae Is Successful. Ten years ago two energetic young women decided to open a tea-room In Wellesley village, where the college students could get luncheons If they leslred or take afternoon lea. It was ;o successful that a corporation was formed, outsiders putting money Into the enterprise. Now the corporation lias changed into the Wellesley Inn Corporation, and it is quite a flourish-

Ing business. It is now a college clubhouse, and the ladies at the head of the organization are very proud of Its success.

Stunning Creation. There seems to be no end to the gorgeous millinery creations put forth this season, and each week's models surpass those previously displayed. The writer, was fortunate enough to be allowed a peep at the trousseau of a well-known society girl about to be married, and there was the smartest and most gorgeous chapeau seen this season. The cut gives a splendid Idea of the shape, and it was built with black satin top faced with white tulh and the side decoration consisted of three magnificent white plumes fastened directly in front, where their attachment was covered -with a choux of black filet net. Exchange. The Mother' Tart. Boys have to fight battles to-day as their fathers before them. .All modern teaching that children should not fight, that boys should le friendly to each other, is very well In theory, but the "bully" is still In existence to-day and TWO STYLISH GOWNS. the word "Uar" Is answered by a blow in the best-bred circles. Boys should not get Into fights for the sake of fighting, but every boy has to learn to take care of himself when he starts out In the world, with other boys. As soon as the mother starts to side with her boy, to show sympathy for him, and reprimand other boys for their brutality, sho will have to stand for that boy's unpopularity and see bim grow Into a coward; but if she allows him to fight his own battles, even at the expense of a few bruises and scratches, he will be worth while. The whimpering child who always runs to his "mother" with every offense has small chance in the big game of life to come. DAM Gold Is ti conspicuous note in present fashions. Many of the best coats have detachable fur linings. New turbans are roomy, coming down on the head to the ears. Some of the smartest shops are beginning to show small hats. Capes In military effects are seen for young girls' evening wear. Louis XVI. designs are most popular among coiffure ornaments. Fur turbans promise to have greater vogue than ever this winter. Smart handkerchiefs for women are in a solid color with a white border. Buckles of fine, highly polished wood are one, of the latest conceits of Paris. Em'ossed velvet belts in all the desirable colors come with cut-steel buckles. Hatpins, enormous and brilliant, nre seen in some of the most elaborate coiffures. line silk-and-wool cashmere is fjrgIng steadily ahead as a favorite In dress goods. 1 pretty little fad Is to tie around the center of the muff a narrow velvet

ribbon of the same color as that used ou the hat. The Bernhard cuff, shaped something like a mit, is a pretty touch on the tight sleeve. Silver and gold buckles with tiny beads trim some of the prettiest tulle darcing frocks. A huge automobile muff has in it a specially constructed pocket for carrying a pet dog. Bracelets are being worn again, quantities of them. They need not match in size, material or design. A magnificent scarf seen lately was of the most delicate silk. Into which was woven all the colors of the nasturtium, fro.v palest yellow to deepest orange red. Soft ret of pale orange, adorned with large siik spots of the same shade. Is the rage of the moment in Toris and is used not only to drape hats, but for evening dresses. Paquin is responsible for a new shade known as Capucine and described aa a cross between rose-pink and tomato It appeared as a gorgeous opera wrap designed for the CroWn Princess of Germany. A. Sweet-Tempered. Wife The most valuable asset a woman can possess is a sweet temper In daily life, because a sweet temper makes the happiness of home. If many a young wife would only realize what a charm a sweet temper has for a husband, she would try to cultivate one. When the tired man comes home from a weary day In the city all the toils and troubles of the wtrklng hours can be smoothed away by the sweet words of a sweet disposition. There Is never

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A Pretty Dlrectolre Model. A delightful matinee gown, or gown for restaurant luncheons, is suggested in the cut on the right It is built from mauve cloth the soft, supple kind, with satin finish. You will note the directoire lines and the chic little bolero, with exceedingly large revers, which meet the long, clinging skirt, joined by a sash of brown velvet The tunic front Is trimmed with fancy buttons and soutache to simulate buttonholes.

a "But" with the sweet-tempered wife, never a tiny grumble, and the littla home becomes such a sunshiny abode that It can make Its inmates forget the cares of life that otherwise would become heavy indeed. Some Snrmiii, It Is what we will to will, not what we will. That makes us what we are. Woman's Life. There is no death but that which we do bring Upon ourselves while yet we seem to live. Amelia Rives (Princess TroubetsTsy. ) When pain grows sharp and slclness rages. The greatest love of life appears. Mrs. Thrale. Space is against thee It can part; Time is against thee it can chiil ; Words they but render half the heart ; Deeds they are poor to our rich will. Jean Ingelow. Many a man wishes life were like ice cream used to taste when he was ten. Opposed to Suffrage. Mrs. EHhu Root is an anti-suffragist and has the courage of her convictions to the extent that she has allowed herself to be elected a vice president of the organization. Mrs. William H. Taft Is said to be personally opposed to suffrage, but she is not at all lik?ly to come out upon any platform, at least for the next four years. Divorce Ilabtt Increanlnc From statistics It has been proved that divorces are increasing about three and a half times as fast as the population, and in the United States the Increase is greater than In other, parts of the world. Nearly a million divorces have been granted In twenty years. Pie riant Juice (or Hunt. You can remove rust stains from a white dress completely by soaking the dress in pieplant Juice, secured by boiling the pieplant in a quantity of water. It makes the dress pink at first, but this comes out at the first washing, and the stains will be effectually removed. A $4,000 wireless telegraph plant Is being erected at Newport, which will have a working radius of 1,250 mile.

INDIANA LAVMAKERS.

Three-Mlle Itoad Lair Danger. One of the laws which will be attacked In the Legislature is the threemile road law. Legislators in bota the Senate and the House have their axes out ready to chop the law full of holes. There will be many bills to repeal or alter the statute. It is declared that it is the most burdensome aw on the Indiana statute books. There are more friends of the law in the Senate than in Äe 1 1 ousts this condition leing probably due to the fact that there are in the House more farmers, men directly affected by the road law, than there are in the Senate. The law as it stands provides that on the presentation of a petition for a gravel road not more than three miles in length in any one township to the com uiissionens of any county In the Stati which is signed by fifty taxpayers, the road shall be ordered built by the commissioners. The entire expense of the roaj is borne by the taxpayers of the entire township in which the road i constructed, although many of these taxpayers assessed never use ihc highway. Enemies of the law, in many instances, say that should the naruber of required signers to any road petition le increased to 100 much of tjio objection to the present law would be removed. Etiemies of the law alio say that it is not right that the taxpayers of one section of the township chouM pay for the construction of a read iu another section when they get no advantage from it Mileage for Senator. Senator Clamor Pelzer of Boonville has farther to come to attend the sessions of the Legislature than any other member of the upper house, according to the reiort of the mileage committee. He is allowed ?40.SO for the round trip, a distance of 4US miles. The Senators from Marion County, Clark, Farsell and Harlan, are allowed no mileage by the 'State, they all being residents of Indianapolis. Senator II, L. Hamm of Plalnfield resides the shortest distance out of Indianapolis, he Ih ing allowed thirty miles for the round trip. The Senators and their mileage allowances follow: Beal, $14.; Benz, $.; Bingham, J?32; Bland. $1S.20; Bowser, $37.00; Brady, $18.00; Clark, none; Cox, none; Crumpacker, $31.20; Fleming, $27.20; Forknor, $8.JS0; Gonnerman. $40.40; G-rube, $21; Haileck, $22.20; G. E. Hanna, $10; II. L. Han na, $3; Harlan, none; Hawkins, $16.00; Iliggins, $17.40; Kane, $4.S0; Khüinel. $35.90; Kirkman, $14; Kistler, 515; Kling, $15; Lambert, $11.40; D&rre, $3G.40; Farreil, none; Long, $0; M Callum, $12.40; McCarty, $10.20; McCullough, $7.20; McDowell, $24; Mat tingly, $22.40; Moore, $11.S0; Orndorff. $27; Parks, $21.00; Patterson, $24; Pearson, $10.20; Pelzer, $40.80; Pow ers, $37.20; Proctor, $31; Ranke. 827.20 ; Royse. $14.G0; Shafer. $13; Springer, $9.00 Stotsenburg, $23; Strange, $14; Tilden, $S; Wood. $12.80; Yarling, $0. To Change City Claaaifleatlon. Senator Stotsenburg has introduced two measures. One related to the classification of cities. It takes South Bend ntd Terre Haute out of the third class and puts them in the second class, leaving New Albany Munde and Anderson in the third class. No other change in the classification of cities is made, and there is no change in the law in so far as it affects cities of the first and second classes. In cities ot the third and fourth classes, the bill abolishes the office of city controller, city Judge and Board of Public Works. It contains a provision, however, that any city of the third and fourth classes desiring such offices and departments can have the same by so providing by ordinance of the Common Council. The other was a street improvement bill. It provides that in cities of the third and fourth classes whenever a street is ordered Improved 25 per cent of the property owners shall have the right to have the question of the necessity for the improvement determined by the Circuit Court of the county. Important Bill Started. Introduction of new bills, and plenty of them at that, was the chief business in the Senate Tuesday. The session was called at 10 o'clock and adjourned at Jl o'clock. Thirty-three uew bills were introduced, besides two resolutions. Lieutenant-Governor nail as in the chair and was assisted by fcrmer Lieutenant-Governor (Miller and Senator Wood, president pro tern., in getting the routine business of the Senate straightened out. New bills presented included, about everything from a measure for the protection of skunks and fur-bearing animals to a bill providing for the guaranty of bank deposits. Two measures were Introduied providing for uniform accounts in county and township offices, and for the inspection of such ofiices, one by Bland and thfc other by Kling. nepreaentatve MrGlnntaa Bill. Representatire McGinnls, of Morgan County, has twj bills, besides his purification of streams bill, that he will endeavor to haTe made into laws. One will change the fish law so as to permit seining, and on this there will probably be sone contest The othr Is to regulate tenement houses to make Ihelr sanitary conditions better. It Is understood thai the latter bill would affect the herd'ng of Hunyaks In Indianapolis. New Lieht Wr Former Senator. Dr. Thralls, of Hymera, formerly Senator from Knox and Sullivan Counties, -vas here o see the Democratic Governor inaugurated, the first he ever saw. He has In en a Democrat all his life, but never sw a Democratic Governor put In ollhe. "It rests with this life, but never sfiw a Democratic Governor," said Dr. Thralls, "whether the Democrats remain iu power In Indiana. If they d! not spend too much money and give the ieople a business administration we will have a Democratic Senate th? next time. To Aineni Constitution. A joint resolution to amend the constitution of Indiana, to provide that the General Assembly fix by law a uniform and equal rate of taxation of property, was submitted to the Senate by Senator Nathan 15. Hawkins of Portland. The resolution was referred to the commit tet on Constitutional rerevision. Soldiers of Berlin built a pontoon bridge across tfc,e River Spree in 40 minutes recently.

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Indianapolis correspondence: For the first time In twelve years Indiana sends a Democrat to the United States Senate. Indiana's last Democratic Senator was David Turpie, whose speeches against Spanish rule in Cuba before the war of 1S.$ made the Senate sizzle, and who was succeeded by Albert J. Beveridge. Benjamin F. Shively was born on a farm in St. Joseph County, Indiana, March 20, 1S57, and was the fourth In a family of eight children. Ills early experiences were those of the average farm boy until as a youth he entered the Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso. After being graduated from that Institution he taught school from 1S75 to 1.880. Then he settled in .South Ilend, where he conducted the Industrial Era, a greenback newp:iper, and took an active interest in iKlitlcs. At the age of 27 1 e was elected Congressman by the Democrats of the Thirteenth District, and was the youngest member of the House w hen he took his seat. As a member of Congress he served one term that expired March 4. 1SS5, and then took up the study of o-,: ."---''si fr-:-law at South liend. After coming, out of law school Mr. Shively ag;iln was elected to Congress, and served three successive terms. In 1S0Ö Mr. Shively was the Democratic candidate for Governor, brit tti? State was overwhelmingly Republican, and he was defeated, although he made a hard fight, campaigning night and day. He also on two occasions was given the complimentary vote for Senator when his party was in the hopeless minority. His winning of the senatorship, therefore, comes at the end of a series of defeats, which he has taken good-naturedly and optimistically. Like the man he succeeds. Senator James A. Hemenway. he Is i-elf-made. and like Senator Beveridge. his olleague from Indiana, he appreciates the advantages that come to a man in public life, whatever his office, of keeping close to the people. Wit h Beveridge and Shively in the Senate, Indiana will not be uncon?picuous la the Sixty-first Congress. For the last fiscal year, although unprendering eleven charters nd issuing only eijht, the Cigarmakers' International Union gained 200 in niembersjip. The cooks and chefs of Toronto, Cax, have decided to fend for an A. F. of L. charter to Wa shington so that t liey niiy become part of the great army of labor. In Paris, Fra nee, there is a special ' school for waiters. Students are taught four languages, geography, artistic decoration and dancing, as well as minor accomplishments. The Painters' Union of Sacramento, CaU has apiointed a committee of three to obtain consideration by the next Legislature of legislation needed by the craft of painters throughout the State. The Bricklayers and Masons International Union has notified Boston (Mass.) Bricklayers Union No. 3 that it will finance an appeal to the United States Supreme Court of the recent decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Courtx which enjoined the union from fining several members for refusing to strike, declaring the union had no such right. National labor union war against local option was planned at a meeting of the Central Federated Union in New York recently. An appeal to all central and national labor bodies in the United States to fight the movement was agreed upon, on the ground that local option had already thrown many thousand out of employment and is a menace to piosperity. while it does not decrease drunkenness. Within less than a decade there has been a large increase in the amount of Mexican labor employed in the United States, but more marked even has been the increasing range of its distribution. As recently as 190X immigrant Mexicans were seldom found more than a hundred miles from the border. Now they are working as unskilled laborers and as sec tion hands as far north as Iowa, Wyoming and San Francisco. Stationary firemen of Minneapolis and St. Paul are discussing a proKsed State license law' for firemen, along the same lines es the law controlling the stationary engineers and the S't. Paul union, at its last meeting, unanimously indorsed the proposed law. A committee has been appointed by the International Association of Plumbers, Gash Fitters, Steam Fitters and Steam Fitters' Helpers to visit sites for a prolKsed home for aged memlnrs of the craft. The committee will examine siten in Pasadena, Cal.; Hot Springs, Ark.; Colorado Swings and Denver, Colo. Under the new pension law of the International Typographical Union 41.1 me ibers ore drawing $4 a week. It is estimated hat there are some 000 entitl d to this pension, and when these are all properly registered it will mean an outlay of about $124,ST: a year. Leicester is a center for the manufacture of boots and shoes in l'ngland. Many women are employed. The wage scale is leased upon piece wo: k : women titters and in-line workers earn, usually, from $2.70 to $1.70 a we-k. but recently, because of short time ir. the factories, condensation has ransd from .$1.70 to $2.r-0 a week. A large ixrcentace of the member of the Photo Kn gravers' Intemation il Union U afilictcd with tuberculosis', and the international intends to establish five sanatorium for their care in various sections of the country. Times are hard in the world of actors and actresses just now. One prominent theatrical man declares that there are 10,000 idle artists of this profession in New York to-day, and more than oO per cent of these are women. The railroad engines of the world -over 7,000,000 wiles a day In the aggregate.