Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 April 1909 — Page 3

Race

BYHAWLEY CHAPTER XXII. (Continued.) "Foolish business, Gren. very, I'm ifraid." he replied at length. "Nobody I'd sooner give her to, providing she's willing to take you." "My dear nncle. Maud and I " "Pooh ! You reedn't go on about that. I never doubted that you and Maude had settled it all before you did me the honor to cocsTilt me. But what are you to live on? Your 400 a year won't keep a wife. Grenand I can't help you." "Xo. but we can wait a bit ; we are both young, and I shall be making two or three hundred a year at my profession very soon." "Nonsense, boy; I know the law. I thoroughly believe you to be clever and have no doubt the money will come in course of time, but it's slow work very. Long engagements are not judicious. "But this is net to be so very Ion;; and Maude is good to wait a couple of years or so for me. "A coupl- of years," smiled the squire. "What did tae fee-book say last year. Fifty pounds. "Not quite; very near it, though." "I'm afraid you'll End it will take all two years to double it. I don't doubt your doin well at last, but it takes time, It takes time. Still, Gren. I'll not gainsay the match, and. if at the end of next year you can see your way Into something like 300 a year, exclusive of what you have, make a wedding of it, if you like. Ten thousand thanks, uncle. This case of yours will find me practice, see if it don't. I have no intention of hiding my light under a bushel. I'll take very jrood care, through my friends, the case is well talked of. Only wait till the Two Thousand is over, and see what derail the sporting papers shall have of it! Good-by. I will just run up and see my aunt and Maude, and then I'm off." Grenville dashed into the drawing room, where he found Mrs. Deuison aryl his cousin. "I'm just off to town, aunt, and have come to wish you good-by, and to tell you I'm to be your son-in-law, after all. "Don't believe him, my mother, laughed Maude, her eyes dancing with fun. We know better than that don't we? We mustn't detain him, or he'll be too late for his dinner. You greedy thins; you won't live if you gourmandize so " "Come here, Gren, said Mrs. Denlson ; "has my husband consented to your marriing Maude?' "Yes. aunt, as soon as I've got bread and cheese enough to feed her on." "My dear boy, I'm so glad! I was obliged to Le your enemy once, Gren I couldn't belp myself; but I'd rather you took her than anyone!" 'O'j you. mother!" cried Maude; "and Le sas he'll feed me on bread and cheese, and I like, I like strawberries and cream." "Sad thing, aunt, but I suppose I'd better trrak o(f the match at once. Better that than come to a separate maintenance, you know. Bread and chee is a good Listing dish, but bow she's to get through the winters I don't know, on what ?he proposes." "Ah. well, never mind, laughed Maude ; "she's yours now, and won't have a separate Luintenance. Y'ou'll have to feed her some way and you can't guess how ehe cats. When are you going, Gren?" "Iii a very few minutes. I'm going to walk ; will you come with me? Goodby, aunt. Don't be afraid. I won't run away with her, at all events till strawberries are well in, and threpence a pottle." "Listen ; were lovers like that in yoar daj, mother? I used to dream, a little while back, that when you had a lover, it waa all you could do to keep him from ruining away with you. Now I'm getting ja;te clever about it, and know that Gren would always much prefer to leave tue behind than his portmanteau. "Coijm away. Maude, and let's see if we -an shut it ; you know we always lave a deal of trouble about that." "Oh, yes, I always found you and Tliomas despairing over it, and It takos all my ingenuity to make those last three or four packages fit in. Don't you think he's making a wife of me, mother, a little before he's entitled to?" "Go away, you foolish children. Yon can quarrel and make np all the way to the station. The refractory portmanteau was soon reduced to subjection under Maude's clever auspices, and then the two cousins wa.'ked across the fields to the station. "Your father's given you to me, Maude, as soon as I can get together an income that we can live upon." She might be coquettish before her mother, but she was meek enough to her lover when they were alone together. "I hope I shall be a good wife to you, Gren. You know I'm not extravagant, however I may laugh about it." "No, my darling, I know you better; and if we have to begin with a little. I hope you'll be able to spend lots of money before long." ' "I never had any money :o spend," said the girl, gravely. "I've often had to want a fire-pound note, both for myself and my poor people in the village." nd will have again, pet. Wanting money is the normal condition of ninetynine hundredths of civilized humanity. But you must turn bac now, you have come far enough. Good-by, and God bless you," said Rose, as he clasped her in Lis arms. "Mine now, forever, isn't it?" "Yes, Gren. Yours or no one's," she replied, as she lifted her lips shyly to his. "Please write." "Every day, dearest. Good-by;" and, with one more kiss, Grenville Rose tore himself away. How he traveled up to town in the same carriage with Pearman we have already seen. On his arrival at Waterloo Station he jumped into a cab, and proceeded at once to the Temple. On entering his rooms the first thing that caught his eye was the figure of Silky Dallison, who, comfortably ensconced in the easiest chair in the room, was making, apparently, some abstruse calculations on a piece of paper, and referring frequently for guidance to a gaily bound betting book. "All risrhtf old fellow," he sa'd, in return to Grenvil'.e's greeting. "Wanted to have a talk to you ; knew you would come Up by that train; told the old party to set fowl for two at half-past seven wants just ten minutes. Go and wash your bands, while I finish what I am about." After the "bit of fi.sh and beefsteak" that constitute an ordinary bachelor dinner in chambers, the two began to smoke. "Now," said Dallison, "'shall be back to dinner" of course meant, as we agreed it should, that Peurmaa had yielded to your terms. I was ff to Plyart directly I got your message, and we have had a busy afternoon of it. We rather woke up th Subscription Itoon. at Knightsbridge, I flatter myself. From Wing an outsider in the betting, we brought Coriander back to 7 to 2, and made him once more first favorite. I toM you we had Pearman la a hole, and we had. I suppose you got a loJ. of money out of him?" "Yes, indeed; we made him pay 10,000 4o let ofif our claim." And then GreoVille recounted his interview with Pearinan. "Very good; then he's now absolute jo&ster cf the hore again. Of course,

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Wif e SMART exactly what I expected from your telegram. Now I'll tell you what I've done. In the first place, I laid, between us, or rather Plyart did for us. 3.300 to 1,200 against Coriander; that was before he was driven back in the betting; of course that left us to win l,2O0 if he was beat or didn't start. After getting your telegram I went down to Tattersall's, and. with Plyart's assistance, got that whole 1,1100 on the horse at long odds. We now stand to win. between us 10,170 if Coriander wins the Two Thousand, and just quits if he loses. Not a bad book, Grenville?" "By Jore ! no ; and he's a good chance, hasn't he?" "Yes. on previous running, wonderful. We know Pearman has backed him to win him a lot of money. It's not likely he would have paid you 10,000 to-day unless he was very confident about his chance. To wind up with, his own commissioner backed him to-day for a good bit of money, although he had to take shortish odds, owing tour having appropriated all the long prices against the colt." Grenville's eyes sparkled, though he said nothing, but smoked on in silence for a minute or two. Yes, if that should come off, he might marry Maude at once ! Dallison had regarded him intently. Suddenly he broke silence: , "I saw your eye flash up, and then you plunged into a reverie. I had forgotten the stake you told me you had on this, when you first spoke to me about it. Whether it's been any good to go so far, of course I don't know ; but you stand as fair a chance as a man can do of winning 3,0SO next week, if that will help you at all. There's no certainly about anything in this world about how long it's been a world, or about how long we've been pres-ing on each other in it. Ira.ically, mind, we are as much cannibals as ever, and cat each other up with as much alacrity as the Feejee Islanders. A good heavy city swindle gulps us down much as a whale takes herrings; but there's plenty of pike about, who do their cannibalism one at a time, and Dot by the shoal. Old Pearman was a pike of renown ; in fact, he might have aspired to the dignity of a shark, if he hadn't beer of a retiring disposition, and ever anxious to hide his light under a bushel. Young Tearman has a fair dash of the pike about him, too. Which way he can moke most money out of Coriander I don't know; but I should think, by winning; and if I'm right in my conjecture, bar accidents, we shall win our money, Gren." "And if it is the other way?" "Shan't lose it, thank goodness ! But I'm afrai if his book makes up a few hundreds better on the lose. Coriander will not run up to his previous performances. We've done pretty well; win or lose, we stand a big stake to nothing. Good-night." Grenville mused far into the night. Yes, he had been playing for high stakes lately, and winning game after game. Let tl.is only come off, and he should hare fairly won his sweet cousin. Then the thought came into his head that he must set it, and then it flashed across him that Maude must be with him. How he waa to manage it, he didn't know. As inspirations flash across mankind, so do superstitions. Coriander's winning the Two Thousand depended upon Maude and him being there to see. "Ridiculous!" you'll say. There is pretty well as much romance and superstition going about the world as heretofore; but our nineteenth century training teaches us, above all things, not to lay ourselves open to ridicule. We may inwardly admit such things; we don't acknowledge them. (To be continued.) ENGLISH WOMEN SWIMMERS. An Inere&slnc I.Iklnc tor the Sport In Which he Ar Doe Xot Count. Seventy-four men and foity-threa women will receive awards of merit in connection with the intermediary examination of the Royal Life Saving Society in London, says an exchange. The Intermediary represents a step to tin g.ilulug of the diploma, a tremendous test of the swimmer's aquatic i-owers, and it doe not follow that those who have gained the one will attempt the other. The examination in swimming consists of various difficult tests. Among other things the candidate for honors has to jump Into the water fully dressed, except for hat and shoes, and rescue a person, carrying him twenty yards hi the water. Candidates must also swim sixty yards fully dressed, must give examples of various strokes, must undress on the surface of the water, dive and perform other feats. In the case of a woman she must take off corsets, blouse, sldrt and stockings while in the water and then In her swimming costume pass the other tests. The Increasing love of swimming among English women Is not confined to women of one class. Femininity In all ranks of society now favor it as an excellent exercise. Several women's clubs have swimming tanks and the Bath club makes a special feature of lessons and exhibitions of this form of sport. The swiftest wimmers are to be found among the north country factory girls and the teacher in charge of tne Intermediary examination ascribes this to the fart that their dally work Involves lu many cases a good deal of use of the muscles of the arms and also to the fact that the streets In a mill town are not so bright and attractive on the winter nights as those of the metropolis, while the baths are wann and well lighted and offer a strong attraction to the mill girl seeking recreation, with the result that she becomes a proficient swimmer. Age does not seem to affect swimming ability and one team of women at a swimming club counted 219 years as their united age. There were only four of them and th;y were the champion team of the club. Uncle Hank's Idea. It was Uncle Hank's first ride In a parlor car. The porter came around and brushed him down with a whisk broom. "How much, bub?" drawled Uncle Hank, fumbling around in his pocket for a nickel. "Quarter will do, sah," responded the porter, with open palm. "Quarter will do? Say, do I get the whisk broom, too, for that?" Sore Enough. Kind Lady What are those bells ringing for? Johnnie Jump Because aomebod'a pulling 'tm!

ALL LOOK FOS RICH WIVES. PrUI Reached In the 3Inrrlatre 3Inrket of the Freiifh Republic. There is a crisis in the marriage nr.rkot. Young people do not marry. It is. of course, no new story in Trance. Vital statistics prove the la ok is well as the barrer.ness of marriages. Where Is the fault? This is a question vhich Paul Margueritte iliscusse. in the Journal to-day, according to n Paris dispatch to the San Francisco Chronicle. One of the advantages. In the midst of the disadvantages, of a Paris pess is its ability to discuss any subject and its ability to enlist the pens of leadin personages to discuss It. Paul Margueritte is one of the twain of novelists who have given a long string of clever pictures of contemporary Franco. Now. the brothers have dissolved partnership and each writes under his own name. Paul, especially, Is a champion of women, though he advocates a degree of emancipation which would startle the leaders of the cause In England. It Is not necessary to subscribe to all his views to be profoundly struck by his arguments in favor of a freer wornanhood in France. Though the most intelligent people in Europe, more open than any other to new Ideas, the French have brjrely conserved the laws and customs of the Romans In relation to woman. Side by side with woman barristers and the rest are legal traditions concerning the sex which seem to have come direct from the dark ages. Some feminine disabilities have bon remedied recently; others are in process of remedy. Mnrgueritte's article loes not lenl with woman's legal status so much rs with her helplessness in the matter of matrimony. He lays it down as a general axiom that the French girl wishes to be married, while the young :nnn wishes to remain single. The young man will not marry, or defers marriage until comparatively late In life, because he fears the responsibilities of a household. Living has become Increasingly dear in Paris. The old simple ways of the economical French are changing In the large town3 for greater luxury and display. It is becoming increasingly difficult for the man of a small fixed income and a, certain position to keep up to make both ends meet. That is indisputable. Therefore the adventurous male says: "I shall not marry unless I can find r wife with money." As Paul Margueritte drily remarks: "This is a business arrangement, and business is bad." M. Margueritte adduces this damnin? fact that men in the industrial and clerk class in France do' not marry the IalorIous and hard-working women with whom they are in dally contact in the offices. Their attitude toward the feminine worker ! one of pomradeshir or hostility: it does not lord to mar riage. Yet it is notorious that these women are good and econoadcal managers in their own homes. No. The young man's fancy turns to the girl of the flighty sort to the one who dreams of millionaires to the unattainable, In fact. And that is one of the ioten! reasons why there are fewer marriages.

ooooooooooooooocoooooooooc X PONIES OF SABLE ISLAND. ? OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXXXXXXXXXXD Situated about eighty-five miles east ward of the coast, of Nova Scotia Is Sable Island, the home of herds of wild ponies. Once a year, writes Mr. Silver, in "Farm-Cottage, Camp and Canoe 1b Maritime Canada," the wild ponies arc rounded up. They are driven into o pound, and are bound and taken to the hold of a government boat. Certainly Sable Island does not ex actly tally with one's preconcerted no tlon of the character of a horse ranch Yet here the ponies thrive in average seasons; here they roam in ignorance of the labors which most of their race are fated to endure, until nt last the evil day arrives of the annual drive when the whole island is swept fron end to end, and a kicking, snorting, ter rilied mass Is driven into a large pouid. Two or three dozen of selected ponies are then lassoed, thrown down, bound ridded over upon a hand-barrow, lifted up and slid into the surf-boat, rowed out, and finally hoisted on board foi conveyance to Halifax. The horses of Sable Island are sei dorn seen lying down to rest. They often sleep standing. They persistent ly refuse the shelter of a stable, ot even the rough sheds erected for their comfort, and shun the near presence of man. In severe weather It Is the hab.'t ol the horses to gather in the gulches oi hollows between the sandhills. Here they arrange themselves in regular or der, the colts in the centers, their eld ers outside of them, and the mastei stallion in the most exposed situation of all. As all the ponies are under thlrteci! hands, their usefulness Is restricted Some prove extremely serviceable ani tnals, easily kept, with fair speed ant' great endurance, especially under the saddle. As a rule. who.: once broker and well cared for, they become affectionate and docile. The Mystery uf Jlollotr Anh. 'Twas Deakin Ilurnper's funeral, An everything was goin' well; When them there Templars up in town On a excursion train came down. I driv the mourners, an Joe Fresh He driv the head of the procesh ; An' when we neared the railroad track We see that train a-comin' back. Joe turned around an' winked at me An' from his vest he showed a V; "I'll bet you those that this Lere hears 'LI cross ahead of that excurse!" The mourners they set up a yell. An' then was missin for a spell ; It waa amazin' how that crowd Cavorted upward iu a cloud. They piled them victims on the sward Alnut three-quarters of a cord; On top they put the uVakin's meat. But where Joe went we all was beat. I s'arched the pieces of that train, " But all my s'archin was in viin; An' to this day it do boat me Where was the piece that had that V. From the Galaxy Magazine of Septem her, 1S71. Infernal Cheek. "Well, did he pay you?" asked the wife of a dentist who had been to collect a bill for a full set of false teetb that he had made for a man almost a year before. . "Pay me!" growled the dentist. "Not only did he refuse to pay me, but he actually had the effrontery to gnash at me with my teeth !" Everybody' Magazine. It Is very hard to admit that a mar younger than yourself has more sense thinner than when around her work.

Blur Monday. Look a -he re, Mary Ann, You stop jour complainin'; I know it's a-raiuin' As hard as it can. But what are you gainin'? Is't th Lord you are trai.i'n".' Well he ain't explainin His reasons to Man! Look a-here. Emmy Lou, I know it's Monday, But in six days comes SuiWay. So quit bein' blue ! You'd think by the whinin There warn't no bright link. Wasn't yesterday shinin'? Ain't Zeh courtin' you? Life's rhvk full o Sundays To nxhl-i up for Mondays! Emmy Loa Mary Ann, J es' you smile while you can! Jean Dwight Franklin, in Harper's. The Unpopular "Woman. Who is she? Why is she unpopular? Is she to blame, or is she the object of a diabolical conspiracy to shut her out from the enjoyment of a circle of friends? Did you ever notice how quickly, ea??"y and amusingly she tears a new acquaintance to tatters, or with what gusto she rolls under her tengue a choice morsel of unpleasant gossip about an acquaintance of longer standing? Did you mark her intuitive appreciation of small faults and little vanities, and her unmistakable delight In magnifying them or holding them up to ridicule? Then you know she has not one friend, because those who might be friends are afraid. They see she is sharp and cruel. They have heard her keen satire, her sarcastic Jibes. This type of woman always gives you the uncomfortable feeling that the moment you leave her she is going to mal: merry at your expense. For that reason you never quite gave her your confidence. The longer she persists in her bad habit the less likely she is to ever reform,, and unless she reforms she cannot expect to win friends. The old proverb warns us not to peak 111 of the dead. Common sense protests against speaking ill of the living. And herein Is the true explanation of the unpopular woman. Chicago Journal. 'Reducing: Your Weight. The following familiar table of heights and weights may le lowered with advantage fully fiv to ten pounds In every instance in the weight of women: Height. Weight. 5 feet 1 inch 120 pounds 5 feet '2 inches ! l'JiJ pounds f feet 3 inches li.'l pounds 5 feet 4 inches 130 pounds 5 feet Ö inches 142 pounds f feet 0 inches 143 pounds 5 feet 7 inches 148 pounds 5 feet 8 inchw IST pounds 5 feet i) inches ......... 102" pounds ." feet 10 inches 100 pounds 6 feet 11 inches 174 pounds G feet O inches 178 pounds A woman who has lost twelve pounds in three weeks, and lost It very satisfactorily from her hips, declares that the feat was accomplished by simply dropping and picking up a handkerchief twenty times, night and morning. St. tiding in her stocking feet and wiihout any tight clothing she drops the handkerchief directly in front of her toes aud stoops to pick it up ten times with one hand and ten times with the other, the trick, of course, being to recover the wisp of cambric without bending the knees. The exercise Is repeated tTenty times again at night. Copper Colored Satin. A stunning creation of rich copper colored satin, with sleeves, yoke border and band across front of heavy lace dyed to match. On either side there is a sash of black satin, starting from ihoulder and extending to hem or skirt, passing under the lace bands just below knee depth. The tucker and stock are finely plaited cream silk moussel lne. The turban Is baby caracul with a wreath of velvet roses in B.ime shade as satin, with natural foliage. 'o Mirror lu Sick Hoom. A trained nurse of long experience mphasized the necessity of keeping aiirrors out of the sickroom. The patient should never be allowed to look it one, as the ravages wrought by illaess In one's own face gives a shock which it is hard fur the nurse to loothe away. Cases have been known in which a patient being allowed a rlimpse of himself at a critical point it the illness took a turn for the jvorse, and from that time forward lank rapidly. "W'lint I Tuberculoids It is the ever present scourge of tho human race. It is called consumption when the lungs are affected. Taken in all its forms, it is the cause of one-seventh of all deaths. The germs of the disease are most often carried In the sputum of a consump

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Home Hemedle. For soft corns, bathe the foot and place a bit of absorbent cotton, which has been dipped in sweet oil, between the toes night and morning. To remove warts apply oil of cinnamon three times daily. Five cents' worth will be sufficient When a patient is suffering from fever and the tonguo becomes coated, wash with glycerine. One application will make the tongue clean. A good poultice for an abscess is to bake or boil a white turnip, mash and r.:ix with two tablespoonfuls of unsalted lard and five drops of laudanum. This poultice, made according to direc tions, will break an abscess when all other remedies fail. To Keiiiore Pencil Mark. Pencil marks can sometimes be removed from white paint Ly gently rubbing them with bread crumbs in the direction of their course (not across) or by rubbing with a slice of lemon or raw potuto. In more obstinate cases all traces can be removed with a soft piece of linen moistened with, pure turpentine, or benziue, taking care to wipe it off quickly with a dry rag af-

CHARMING DINNER GOWN.

This stunning frock is adapted froth the Dlrectolre modes, with the hlghwalsted skirt of the Empire and the fichu like drapery of another time charming merged into one. It is of pale blue satin, veiled with gray chif fon. The upper part of the bodice and the sleeves unflar the chiffon are terward. The polish can be restored to the surface by lightly rubbing with a soft rag dipped in a very little linseed oil, or by Just polishing with a little whiting. If the pencil has left indentation marks they can be got out by laying a piece of felt that has been wrung out of water over the place, then pressing a very hot Iron over the felt. Suit with Two Skirt. The most general fashion during the last season among smart women has been to have two skirts to the desirable tailor-made suit. Thus for street wear the well-dressed woncau appears In a walking skirt; then if she wants to go to a bridge party or tea In a hurry, all she has to do is to change her blouse, slip on unother long skirt to be used with the same coat and she Is suitably gowned for any dressy occasion. It Is fashionable economy to make the isame coat do for two skirts. Fringed Iturhlutf Again. Some of us remember the fringed silk niching which trimmed our mothers' gowns and mantles nearly a score of years ago. Those ruches were made of stiff silk, raveled out at the edges and plaited Into a full ruche. Now the raveled ruche comes back, Introduced by Doeullldt, a Paris dressmaker, and the frock on which the ruche Is used Is called appropriately a "polonaise." Hickory Oil (or Bor. An exchange gives this as the result of interviewing thirty business men and thirty loafers: The thirty buslmen had all been flogged freely by their parents when they were boys, while out of the thirty loafers twentyKeven had been "mamma's darlings" and the other three had been raised by their grandmothers. o Store Children. Dr. Walter V. Wilcox, head of the department of statistics at Cornell University, says that In the last fifty years there has been a decrease of about thirty a year in the proportion of children to every thousand women, and if this rate is to continue for a century aud a half more there will be no children left. Wet Cloth lu Sickness. When a very hot cloth is wanted for use In sickness, do not wet the whole cloth. Tako hold of the ends, one In each hand, then drop tho center In boiling water, twist the cloth quickly, and the result will be a very hot cloth and the hands not wet. Value of Proper Breathins;. It is now generally conceded that people who breathe deeply and so use their lungs to the fullest capacity seldom become the victims of consump-

tlon. Moreover, those thus afflicted who persistently employ the right method recover, unless they are in the advanced stages of this dread disease. A few simple exercises employed every morning on rising before anopen window or In a well-ventilated room will have a marked effect. Try this for a week at least and note the results.

Advice of a Xovellst. A girl who was fond of scr'bbling stories once asked a well-known novelist how' she could succeed, and the novelist answered: "Oh, when you've written something. Just imagine somebody else did it some one you hate and go for it without mercy. Then set to and write it over again; indeed, write It again and again, always repeating the ruthless criticism part of the program." Life am m Duty. Ir would pay pleasure seekers to try the old plan of looking on life as a duty, where pleasures came by accident or kindness, and were heartily, grateful" v enjoyed. It stands to reason that if you are deliberately arranging to get pleasure, and plenty of It, you can not enjoy It as much as if your life' consisted of duties, and your pleasures came by the way. Bat That la Different. A London paper says: "The American woman has no more use for a man than to despoil him of his money. We'll agree to do the "Salome" dance before "the royal family if our London contcmpon ry will Just name one of its blooming countrymen who came over here prospecting matrimonially with enough real money to pay his laundress. Philadelphia Evening Star. Cushion CoTers. Burlap and craftsman's canvas are much used for cushion covers, and of white lace, a ruffling of which appears at the elbow. The embroidery which encircles the corsage and borders the tunic-like overskirt is of pale blue and silver. The hat for this costume is of dull blue panne velvet, with marabout to match and a pale gray aigrette caught with a huge white stone. really beautiful effects may be brought out with very little effort. A design, conventional or otherwise, cut from cretonne and applied with an embroidery stllch, will make a brave showing at the expense of little time or trouble. Another, cock feathers drawn diagonally across the pillow and worked with mercerized thread in natural colorings. Craftsman canvas Is $1 a yard up, fifty inches wide. Burlap Is inexpensive. ROUTJHE-' ABY Babr'a Weight. A 1-year-oJd baby should weigh 20Vls pounds. If healthy, the gain should be Just G pounds the next year. At 3 the weight should be 31 pounds, and at 4 35 pounds. The normal baby will weigh 41 pounds at 5, and 40 pounds at the age of C years. During the next four years up to 10 the weight should be 494, 54H. K) and 00 2 pounds. If baby has kept close to his average the chances for continued good health are bright. Coed and Wlvea. The London Teacher has been looklug Into the marriage rate at Manchester University, and found that of 500 women who achieved degrees only C4 have married. At Manchester the young woman and the young man sit side by side. And only 12 of the 500 have mated themselves with male graduates. RaUIng Powder. Dry thoroughly lu a warm oven and tlun sift well, first sepcrately and then all together, two ounces of tartaric ncld, three ounces of bicarbonate of soda, and three ounces of potato flour or arrowroot. Keep In a well-corked bottle. Half n teaspoonful to a pound of flour Is sufficient for pastry. Objection. Algy Myrtle, what are your objections to marrying me? Myrtle I have only one objection, Algy. I'd have to live with you. The Troper Form. Whether the unknown woman be married or unmarried, she should be addressed "Dear Madam."

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FINANCIAL CHICAGO. In the sustained high volume of payments through the banks and improvement in credits the business conditions are encouraging. High prices for breadstuffs aud labor. disputes are temitorary cross-currents, and leading retail lines require more seasonable 'weather for an ample reduction of merchandise, hut manufacturing makes some progress, freight transportation increases and agriculture has started with an excellent outlook. Metal and woodworking gather strength from the wider demands for supplies, and' iron producers have less difficulty in negotiating contracts for future deliveries, although no specially large individual tonnages appear in the bookings. Increasing inquiries impart a better tone to railway equipment, forge and foundry operations. Rail mills in this district have accumulated much forward work, while the orders have more breadth for plates, piie and merchant shaies. Some gain is noted in new demands for furniture, including exiort order and the outputs extend in boxmaking and planing mill materials. Earnings of the Chicago steam roads exhibit further gains while freight offerings increase in heavy materials factory products grain and general merchandise. Farm reports testify to rapid advance in spring work, more acreage being prepared and the winter wheat and rye do well with higher temperatures and moisture. Bank clearings $201,270,701, ereeed those of coresponding week iu 1IK1S by 11.1 per cent and compare with $234,209.724 in 1007. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 21, against 21 last week, 21 in 1008 and 17 in 1907. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number f. against 4 last week, 0 in 1908, and 9 in 11)07. Dun's Weekly Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Weather, crop and industrial reports are stall .very Irregular, rendering general characterization difficult. Taken as a whole, there is, however, a slightly larger business doing, this being particularly true of retail trade in sections where weather rermits and in bookings for fall and winter delivery at wholesale. In portions of the South and in the East generally there is more confident purchasing, higher prices for cotton aiding in the former instance, while the advance of the season helps trade along the Atlantic seaboard. Business on the Pacific coast has expanded slightly, particularly in California. In the central West trade at retail is expanding slowly and a rather better business is reported with country merchants, but jobbing activity Is not as pronounced as it was some weeks ago. Industry Is in a rather spotted condition. There is more doing iu iron and steel, but largely, it Is claimed, at the expense of prices. The Improvement noted in the cotton goods Industry is maintained. Prices of staple goods are firm. There is more doing in silk manufacturing. Women's wear woolen goods are in good request and wors! goods and yarns are strong, reflecting the continued firmness Ic raw wool. Business failures in the 1'nlted States for the week ending with April 15 were 201, against 227 last week, 201 in the like week of 1908, 107 in 1907, 107 In 1900 and 183 In 1905. The week's failures in Canada number 27, which compares with 38 last week ami 25 in the like week of 1908. Bradst reefs Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $1.00 to $7.10; hogs, prime heavy. $4.50 to $7.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $0.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.37 to $1.42; corn. No. 2, 07c to OSe; oats, standard. 53c to 51c; rye, No. 79c a 81c; hay. timothy, $8.00 to $14.00; prairie, $S.OO to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 25c to 2Sc; cgss, fresh, 15c to 20c; potatoes, per bushel, $1.00 to $1.10. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.40; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $7.75; sheep, good to choice, $2.50 to $0.15; wheat. No. 2, $1.39 to $1.41; corn. No. 2 white. 05c to 00e; oats, No. 2 white, 51c to 52c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $7.15; hoes. $1.00 to $7.35; sheep, $3.00 to $0.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.50 to $1.51 ; corn. No. 2, 07c to. 09e; oats. No. 2, 54c to 5c; rye. No. 2. 79c to 80c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to- $0.25; hogs, $1.00 to $7.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2, $1.40 to $1.42; corn. No. 2 mixed, OSe to 09c; o.its. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; rye. No. 2, 82c to 84e. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $1.00 to $7.35; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to J4.75; Iambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $8.35. New York Cattlfc $4.00 to $0.05; hogs, $3.50 to $7.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, .$1.37 to $1.38; corn. No. 2, 74c to 75c; oats, natural white, 58c to 00c; butter, creamery, 25c to 28c; eggs, western, 17c to 21c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.39 to $1.40; corn. No. 2 mixed, 07c to 0Jc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 50e; rye, No. S5c to 87c; clover seed, $5.85. Detroit Cattle. $1.00 to $0.00; hoc, $1.00 to" $7-35; sheep. $2.50 to $0.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.38 to $1.40; corn. No. 3 yellow, 09c to 70c; oats. No. 3 white, 50c to 57c; rye, No. 2, 83e to 85c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 Northern, $1.25 to $1.27; corn, No. 3, 07c to OSe; oats, standard, 55c to 50c; rye. No. 1, 81c to N'k?: barley, No. 1, Otc to 05; pork, mess, $10.75. Dogs made a big killing of djeop at the Tasker farm, near Hammond, Wis. They entered the sheds where Tasker Brothers are feeding 1,500 sheep, and killed 200 of them. The loss is over $1,000. The Upstate Public Service Commission of New York has ordered the railroads operating lines in the Adirondacks to use oil-burning locomotives from April 15 to November 1 of each year, the cost of electrification being found to be prohibitive. The object is to prevent the starting and spreading of forest fires. . Senator Taylor of Tennessee has introduced in Congress a bill providing that carriers shall acknowledge all claims for damages and overcharges, etc., within ten days from their receipt, and that they shall pay all lawful claims within ninety days from their receipt.

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Indiana State News

WAIT 01 YEARS TO PAY. Horse Drjtler Get Bark f 3 Overpayment for IIokm. Martin Quinn. a Wabash horse dealer, has been made riched by $ i which had been owing to him for thirty-one years. Ceorge Buehler of Itochest er wax the debtor. Qninn had bought some hogs from Buehler and subsequently the latter found that be had been paid $3 too much. Uuehler supposed he would see Quinn within a few days, and did not pay him. Meeting for the first time in thirty-one years. Mr. KuemVr handed over the $3 aud staled it was due Mr. Quinn. The latter remembered the deal, but did not know that he was a creditor. LIQUOR "WAR SPLITS TOWN. Police Indicted nnd Violence Thrral(Dl at Clinton. Clinton has been in a state of disorder because of a bitter fight over the liquor question. Following the election ia which the saloons were voted out, the thief of j)olice and five patrojmen were indicted on the charge of withholding feet. Throats of violence have been freely circulated, and czc fc?an who opposed the drye at the poll is reported to have said that a certain church would lx wrecked with dynamite and that a minister was in danger of losing his life. FALLS BEAD AT S0?rS HOME. V. G. Wtfite Had Been Suffering from Rheumatlnm for Some Time. While sitting in a chair at the home of his son, Ernest A. White, V. G. White, an old citizen-f Brownsturg, fell out of his chair dead. He had !een a sufferer with rheumatism for some time, but just a few moments before his death he seemed to be in his usual health. Mr. White was well known in that part of the State, as he was one of the early settlers. lie leavesithree sons. Ernest and Uert A of Brownshurg, and Oscar, of Denver, CoL Arrest City Council. The entire city council of North Manchester was arrested following the filing of charges by citizens. It is alleged tnat the municipal body violated the law in allowing claims without having them verified, and paying other claims which had not been filed five (Liys before the session, as required by the code. The penalty for the offense is a fine set by the judge hearing the case, and removal from office. Would Stop "Wheat" Gambling. The convention of the Indiana Association of Master Bakers at Terre Haute adopted resolutions asking the Indiana delegation in Congress to legislate to stop gambling in wheat at once;' that the people of the country have a right to demand action by Congress; also tut sugar be placed on the free list. Jhe delegates were unanimously of the opinion that the price of bread must be raised to 0 cents soon. Son Killed; San Liquor Men. A suit was filed in the Circuit Court at Washington against Ulysses S. Sari, Joseph I. (iordon and Desidrei Sum of the State of Indiana, by James Thompson, asking $2,000 damages for the death of his f on, Koy Thompson, a minor. While under the HSucnce of liquor the youth fell beneath a train and w&s killed. Gordon and Sam are bondsmen for the saloon-keeper alleged to have sold the liquor. v . Hlftrn License to Dar Circo. The Terre ignite city council, complying with the request of the Ketail Merchants Association, is to fix the license for a circus at $1,01)0 a day, with a view to preventing them coming to town on the ground that they U money away. Find Allesed Dater Fraud. l'iüted States revenue officers raided what they allege to be a fraudulent butter plant in the basement of the store of the South Bend Tea Company, said to be owned in Chicago. The officers broke broke through barricaded doors and confiscated machinery and material. Eattrr alt Rained! Six tilrl Sue. At Elkhart six girls filed claims aggregating $2S0 against the Lake Shore Bailroad for damages to their Easter suits and hats by a discharge of oily wrter from a locomotive, inflicted upon them as they stood on the platform of the station. Dor Jumps from Iloatt 1 Drovrned. Earl Troucin. 10 years old. was drowned in the Wabash Itiver at Vincennes. Believing a large wave would sink the gasoline launch in which he was riding Troueino'e'I'd Save yourselves!" to his companions and jumied overboard. , MINOB STATE ITEMS. Thomas Hite and Samuel Mertzhangh of Ligonier, both old soldiers, were killed by a passenger train. Samuel Teague died in Wabash as the result of burns inflicted by the explosion of coal oil. He poured oil from a can on the fire and the explosion wrecked a house and inflicted fatal burns upon himself. Madison Shockley, 72 years old. died at the State prison in Michigan CiTy. He was sent up from Randolph County August 20, 1000, to serve trom one to fourteen years for grand larceny. This was his sixth term in the State prison. Statistics gathered by the Indiana bureau of statistics s)fow that marriages are falling off in Indiana and divorces are increasing. In the year 1!S there were 2.S11 fewer marriages than in the previous year, and at the same time there W'.tc 120 more divorces granted. Fire destroyed the Independent Telephone plant at La Fontaine and the building in which it was located. The telephone girls remained at the switchboard until they could give the alarm and also notify surrounding cities that the plant would be cut off as a result of the fire. Mrs. John L. Brady of Wabash wa the first victim of the recent tornado, dying two days later. Mrs. James W. Hayes, who was so badly injured, is recovering. A mass meeting of citizens was held to offer relief to the victims of the tornado. The wonderful grasp of details possessed by the late James Oliver, plow manufacturer and philanthropist of So?th P.end. is shown by the settlement of hi estate, estimated to be worth .S00.tK;).(Tx. Notwithstanding the size of the fortune, r.ot a single els. m was filed against it and the cxecuti)i Joseph I). Oliver, son cf the dead in:.n, has been discharged. Joseph S. Miller, who died or committed suicide recently, it is claimed fc-ged his father name to rotes amounting to $2.".0!)0. Tlie father.' Matthew C. Miller, a farmer near Lebanon, has filed suit against tlje Fanners' State Piank an4 sixteen individuals, holders of the notes, to prove the forgeries. Charles Fowler, 20 years old. superintendent of the Boiling Prairie power station of the Chicago South Bend and Northern Bailway Company, was elect rocutcd when, uing a derby hat &.$ an indicator, he touched some bare live wires and. a switch with the brim of the tat. which was wet, to show a visitor Low tha lighting arrester worked.