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CHAPTER II. (Con tinned.) Miss Thorne sat watching the rise and fall of the railing against the purple horilon line, apparently feeling herself quite free from any necessity for conversational effort. It was only after some minutes' silence that Mr. Stewart spoke abruptly, I wonfler if you would consider me very Impertinent If I were to tell you that I have been pumping the captain about you?" "About me?" "About your circumstances; your , history." She turned her gaze now to meet his Axed scrutiny, but her voice as she aniwered was but little cnanged from its usual calm indifference. Oh, I suppose that Is the usual way irith people at sea. There is so little else dan out neighbor to talk about, you know." "Then I am to stand convicted of idle curiosity?" And there was an echo of disappointment in his voice. Uh, no, we will call it by the more polite name of kindly interest, if you choose she scoffed. "And may I ask If you found anything amusing or lnttroctlve in the facts which you elicited?" He saw now how she meant to take It, and was ready for her. "Well, perhaps amusing is hardly the word; "Thrilling, then? Surely you consider it thrilling, the story of the virtuous orphan reared in the lap of luxury, but left to look out for herself in the world, with a sufficient, or rather insufficient Income to keep her ia a state of genteel starvation, and bravely setting out to devote herself to art, and to scale the ladSer of fame th.t is what you heard. Isn't it?" "Well, something like that," he admitted. "You did not hear, I suppose," sbf irent on, with a concentrated bitterness In her voice, "that that same heroine häd bo illusions left as to that same art life that she was going to; that she knew the limitations of her poor little skill, and looked to nothinj but ill-rewarded Iradgery; that she was well aware wha: art life in Paris meant to gently bred Englishwomen; that sis loathed lta shabby Bohemianism, its isolation from all that she had ever been or cared for. That, I suppose, you did not hear?" "No," he answered, thoughtfully. "No, but prhaps I guessed some of it." "I wonder what else your inquiries brought out?" And in her words he could feel the restrained eagerness. Por all his studies impassiveness, her fuick eyes read the answer in hia averted 'I see. Ton heard how the man whom I was on the point of marrying, backed at when he found I was not the wealthy kciress of his Imagination." "Yes, I heard that," Stewart slowly admitted. She laughed with that hard little laugh which he had already heard that day; "Well, then, I think we may considei that you are now in possession of the main fact of my history. That being leaded, you will perhaps tell me why you have bo carefully led me into giving a sketch of myself. Or, perhaps you merely wished to impart a Christinas tal at mosphere, suitable to the occasion People in Christmas talej invariably confide their past sorrows to the first person they meet, don't they?' Mr. Stewart stood these taunts with Imperturbability. "I must confess that the Christmas tale theory did not occur to me," he said, "but perhaps you will allow me to go on with my line of argument, and you shall see what I am driving at, presently." He paused, and his listener murmured a polite "Certainly," while a puzzled cu rksity began to dawn in her eyes. "It is acknowledged, then, that I, by forgiven methods, am acquainted with the main fact of your recent history. Now, may I put another personal question, and tsk if you have, through the gossip of the ship, learnt anything of mine?" He put this question with the liest matter-ef-fact gravity, but Miss Thorne stared and laughed, and even flushed a little beJore she answered. . "Really, I do think that your sysScm tf polite conversation is, to say the least of it, peculiar." "There is method in my madness, nave patience with me. Won't you answer my question 7 "I certainly cannot plead guilty to having put the captain through hia paces about you ; but if it is any satisfaction to you to know,' Captain Kerr did make you the subject of a discourse one after noon. "To which you scarcely condescended to listen, I suppose. No matter. You must have gathered the main fact, that I am the latest edition of the Prodigal Son, going back to my feast ot veal ! Pah I I always loathed veal ; There was a silence, while he scowled out at the ever changing curve of te long waves, and she watched his face with a new touch of interest. With a start he roused himself. You heard that, of course?" he asked. I heard that, in consequence of your eldest brother's death, you are going back to take your place as heir to your fath ers estates and baronetcy. "Perfectly correct. But perhaps you did not hear that I am going back to a home from which, ten years ago. I was relent lessly driven out. There was no pity for the young fellow of 25 who had come a copper on the turf. He might not even txchange into a line regiment and have another chance in life. No, he must go forth . into those outer regions whre thire is 'weeping and wailing and gnash Ing of teeth' among such as he and worse Matabeleland jungles, Klondike mines what matter where they go or what they do, so long as they never trouble again the urtuous ones at home. "So I went; and whn, the other day their messenger reached me, It was to ftnd me in possession of one of the tidiest ranches on the Saskatchewan. How Worked ! heavens, how I aid work before the opening up of the country brought tat prosperity He looked down reflec tively at the lean, brown hands that had stood him in such good stead. "But It is hardly fair, in my Innings to burden you with such detail. I only wished you to understand the humor in which I am doing this home-coming. Mj mother, God bless her, was dead long before my mash-cp. It was my brother's wife. I firmly be!ivve, who made my fath er so pitiless towards me. With what a rod of iron she ruled thone two men ! fancj that she rules my father stir, more than ever probably tfnee he has had a paralytic stroke. Well, the and I hall meet araia next week i He seemed to dwell on the thought with sullen menace as he tugged at his moustache. Müs Thorne looked at him with a new sense of comradeship. "Fate has dealt hardly with you," she said, "and yet your troubles may be over now." "While yours are just beginning,' he retorted quickly. "But that is besld the point. What I want to trove now b that yon and I look on the worlJ from the same standpoint. We have n ties, owe nothinj to anyone, claim noth
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JOHN Leslie Publishing House ing from anyone. That Is so, is it not?" "As far as I am concerned it is,' she agreed. "Your prospects are such that almost any change would be an improvement." "Oh, no; I might become blind, or lose the use of my limbs." In spite of a growing nervousness, she was attempting to maintain her former scoffing manner. "We won't take those possibilities into account at present. My prospects, on the contrary, are what might be termed brilliant." "I trust that the contrast you draw adds to your satisfaction in them." she said, with a touch of pardonable petulance. "Now, I wonder what you would say if I were to ask you if you were willing to ;hare these prospects as my wife?" A startlea impulse turced ner race to ward' his, but she only met an intense scrutiny and restrained earnestness. He was certainly not jesting. "I should say that you were suffering under a momentary aberration of intel lect," she retorted, her voice sharp with wounded pride. "Perhaps you are not aware that Captain Kerr also informed me that you had a wife in the Northwest." An unruffled calm greeted this an nouncement, which Miss Thorne had expected to be crushing. "Oh, he did, did he? That's not play ing fair. You should have told me that you had heard that. Well, I was just going on to tell you about it." Miss Thome's astonishment was ap parently too deep for words, so she remained silent, only sending one hasty glance to measure the distance between her and the shuffle-board players, in case of the apparent lunatic becoming violent Was there anything which his quick eye did not take in? "Don't be alarmed,' he said, soothing ly. "Pfally, I am not one of the re turned lunatic ranchers." Then with a short laugh: "It is solitude that works the lunacy business, and 1 have not sufferred from that Look here" and he bent forward towards her, leaning one elbow on the deck "will you promise me not to misunderstand me and fly off at a tangent of virtuous horror at what I have to say? On my honor, I only mean you well. You believe it, don't you?" From under the shaggy pent-houst of his fur cap his eyes looked up at her wun a novel toucn ot pleading In them. She drew a long breath and waited a moment before answering, half reluctantly. as though held in the grasp of his strong er will. "Yes. Somehow, I think that I do. al though I don't in the least know why I should." He answered, with the doubt cone from his voice: "As long as you do, the rest doesn't matter. I am afraid, though, that I must go on being autobiographical. I hope it won't bore you very much. Here, let me put this umbrella up behind you to keep off the wind. And with a dexterous movement he had erected a screen between themselves and the shuffle-board group, which In the course of the game had come close be hind the corner. The sea-gulls screamed and walled overhead. The thud, thud of engines and screw went on as ceaselessly an(L, remorsely as the wheels of fate, and it was to these accompaniments that James Stewart told his tale. CHAPTER III. "You must remember," said Stewart, "that I don't come from the fashionable Northwest the Northwest with a supply of English wives and American paper novels and C P. R. globe-trotters. I regret to say that my regions, away up on the Saskatchewan, are much more the genuine article, undiluted by any such alleviations. If ever I had any visitors they were mostly lumbermen. I daresay that you may have caught a passing glimpse ot such beings enough to know what brutes they can be." "I have seen them In the Ottawa streets, when they come down in Uht spring. They seemed more like wolves than human bings." "Yes ; they are pretty wolfish. Well, It was my fate, one fine evening, to have ridden into the riverside settlement just as a lot of these same brutes had got on a most tremendous spree to celebrate4heir home-coming. Most of them were taking it jovially; but one had struck out on a line of his own, and when I passed his shanty was knocking about his poor lit tie half-breed wife a big-eyed little woman who, once or twice, when I had had a stress of laborers on hand, had come out and cooked for me. "She came shrieking out into the road, with the brute after her, and it wasn't in human nature to resist the impulse tov jump down and give him something In return. Although he was pretty drunk, he was able to make some sort of a fight for It, and just as I was be ginning to get him punished a bit three or four others came streaming out of a bar opposite, so, after a look to see that my Uulcinea had made herself scarce, I jumped on my horse, and got out of the place pretty quickly. A fearful thun derstorm came op over the mountains as I rode home, and lasted at Intervals all night. . The next morning, when I opened the door, there was a poor bundle of wet rags huddled up against it, and a pitifully bruised face looked up out of it. It was Mathilde Boutilller, the lum berrc&n's wife. "At first I couldn't make head or tail of ber feeble walling; but in the end got out of her that her husband had turned her out, saying that if I chose to stand up for her she had better come to me, for he was certainly done with her. He had further emphasized the remark by lockingup their ihanty and starting off down the river on one of the rafts. "She seemed to take it quite for granted that he had power to transfer her in that summary fashion, and had at onct set out to tramp across country In all that pitiless storm. Fortunately for her, the dawn comes early in those April nights, or the huddled mass of wet rags would have been found in the open instead of at my door, and dead instead of alive. Well, I took her in what else was there for me to do? And I suppose that by all the laws of respectability that should have been the end of the story, save as regards the cooking of my dinner; but it wasn't, you see." lie paused and glanced tentatively at his listener, and saw that she sat motionless, the lines of her mouth drawn a little harder, as though from the strain of thought, but with no disapproval manifested. "I'm not quite cur enough to do on the world-old excuse, 'the woman tempted me and I won't deny t'aat the winters seemed a bit less deaolate with a spanielllkt davotion awaiting one Indoors. In a year or so my boy was born, and then Nemesis stepped In and seated himself opposite me at the fireside my boy, who grew daily more like tue old portraits at home, and yet who could never take his place as a Stewart of Orkwell. "And then I swore to give him a bette place In the New World than ever
that, when, about this time last year, there came letters from home. Some
wandering missionary, with the usual busybodyness of his kind, had taken them tales of the prosperity and apparent respectability of the prodigal son. My father sent a long letter, dictated to my sis ter-in-law, and interlarded by her with tens and appeals to Providence. She had, however, it appearel, appealed to Providence in vain for an heir. After fifteen years of marriage she was child less, and her honeyed congratulations on the birth of my boy must have been as bitter for her to write as for me to re ceive. Neither of us. though, need have troubled ourselves. My boy was 3 years old and able to toddle about at my heels. when one day I rode home to find his stiff little bvdy being carried up from the pond to the house, with the wattr drip1 ping from his clothes and yellow curls. Nemesis had found him out, too, poor little chap!" (To be continued. FARM FAMILIES WANTED. Good Chances Offered by Xew York Agricultural Commissioners. Wanted Men with families to spend the summer on farms in the country; rent free, with milk, vegetables, firewood and other necessaries thrown in. Incidentally, a monthly present of 23 to $35 will be found in the stocking of paterfamilias. Of course, something is expected in return, and the man must know something about farming to be eligible to one of these Ideal oppor tunities. The man will be expected to get up at 5 o'clock In the morning and milk the cows, assist in tilling the soil. planting, cutting hay and harvesting In season. If he wants to stay the year around and make a permanent home for himself, send his children to tho district sghool and Identify himself with town politics, he can do so. Just how he can brlnr this about will be told him by II. II. Kracke, Assistant State Commissioner of Agriculture, with offices at 23 Park row, says the New York Tribune. For the benefit of men who cannot leave their work during the day, Mr. Kracke may be found at his office every evening except Saturday, Sunday and Monday. "This is no Utopian idea," said Mr. Kracke, "it is a practical thing. We are receiving applications every day for men to go to work. Most of the jobs are permanent all the year around propositions. And the farmers want men to go to work this month or next, and they want married men for the most part, although they can use a large number of single men during the summer months. And there are lots of opportunities for wives and' children to make money on the side. If the wife can milk a cow 6he can earn money for that And during the berry season she and the children can earn a good bit picking strawberries, etc. During the apple season they can make good money picking up 'windfalls.' 'The man often gets a chance to raise grain or vegetables on halfshares, and he can keep his eyes open for a chance to work a small farm on a similar basis. And after a while he may be able to buy a small farm on easy terms. "Why a man who knows anything about farming should stay In the city and struggle with gas bills, rent, heat and proper surroundings and schooling for his children on $10 or $12 a week I can't see. Of coirse, I can't guarantee to give every man a Job, but I would like to get a good list of peo ple who want to go into the country, and I know that I can place a lot of them." Mr. Kracke said that he didn't know Just how great the demand was going to be this season, but from present indications he felt that it was to be large. During the panic last season many of the employes of large factories upstate, who were thrown out of employment, worked on the farms. To what extent these men will be back in their factory positions again Mr. Kracke didn't know, but the number of them still out of work will determine to a great extent, he says, the demand for farm labor in the city. Tooth-rtrnaliea for Cowi. A Los Angeles physician named Tanner has been spending a lot of tlmt lately looking into tho mouths of cows, and he finds that they are full of germs. These germs, he says, contaminate ttie. cows' milk, and are a contributing cause of Illness In children. In an article In a London paper he recommends that the teeth of cows be cleaned twice a day, and that a law be passed making this compulsory. Whether the cows should have a rote on the proposed law, or whether they should be subjected to purification without representation, Dr. Tanner does not say. No doubt It would be a fine thing If cows could be made to pay more attention to their personal habits. They should be taught in early calfhood that cleanliness is next to Godliness. We wonder, however, whether compelling the farmer to brush his cows' teeth twice a day will not have a bad effect upon the bovine character. Will not the cow become pampered, demanding finer tooth brushes and tastier powders as time goes on? Will she stop at the brushing of teetft, or go further and insist upon shampooing and manicuring? We are opposed to any law that will change the liberty-loving, Inde pendent farmer Into a private secretary to a cow. Success Magazine. Its Identity. "What was going on at your place last night. Square?" inquired Hi Spry. "The house was all lit up, and " "Eh-yahl" returned the old codger, grimly. "They were having a stung party, and it was an unqualified success." "A stung party?" "Yep I Lot o' people came to spring a surprise party on me, and I failed to show up." Puck. The Extremists. De Quiz What's your idea of the difference between optimism and pessimism? De Whiz Oh, the optimist says It ii spring when It isn't and the pessimist gays It Isn't when It is. Ellartbl. Weary Walker I think de President oughter have a man in de cabinet dat knows all about good roads. Walker Weary In dat case we would be eligible for de position. What Did He Meaat Miss Gusher Ohl how I wlah I could paint a pretty face I De Auber (the artist) You wouldn't If you possessed one I
Tlcnlcs Good Way to Entertain. A picnic is one of the most attractive forms of entertainment, especially where a hostess wishes to give a simple affair. As the success of a picnic depends on the attractiveness of the luncheon, care must t-3 given to its choosing and packing. If it takes place in a woods, fresh fish, coffee, and potatoes cooked over a bonfire, besides being attractive edibles, contribute great fup. If the picnic takes place in a park, sandwiches, cold meats, salads, pickles, cakes, Ice cream and lemonade should be chosen. Small rolls filled with lettuce, chopped olives, nuts, minced meats, keep fresh and are easily handled. Pickles, olives and chow chow are good appetizers and when put in bottles keep fresh. A large cake or small cakes baked the day before make attractive dessert. Though coffee is not readily heated, iced coffee and lemonade are cooling drinks. It is well for the hostess to plan games while she and her helpers are setting the table. The table should be spread on the grass in true picnic style. An Inexpensive tablecloth may be used, with a square of white oil cloth the same size to put underneath. In the center are placed the dishes, filled )vith sandwiches, olives, pickles, nuts, fruit and cake. Each place is set with a wooden plate, Japanese nap
kin, a knife, fork and spoons. The picnic over, the hostess should be as particular about clearing the table as she would be in her own home. The crumbs can be fed to the birds. The wooden plates and napkins put back into the luncheon basket and destroyed at home. , A Cheerful Home. A single bitter word may disquiet J an entire family for. a whole day; one surly glance casts a shadow over the household. But a smile may light up the darkest and dreariest hours. No matter how humble the abode, if it is thus garnished with grace and kindness, the heart will turn lovingly toward It from the tumult of the world without. The gentle grace of the mother of such a home remains to be seen in her daughter and the fatherly kindness finds its echo in the nobility and courtesy of the sons. On the other hand, from an unhappy, misgoverned home, go forth those who will make other homes unhappy and perpetuate the sadness, contentions and strife of their own early lives. Agricultural Epltomlst. The Mldinmiuer Girl. She tired of the drooping hat that presses so heavily on her perspiring forehead these torrid midsummer days, yet in her efforts to render herself more comfortable this wise girl does not lose sight of Dame Fashion. She knows that black hats never were so popular, so she takes a look around and finally buys a graceful wide brimmed shape in black lace braid. She drapes it in voluminous folds of soft black satin around the crown a simple but effective and becoming trimming. She buys a couple of stunning hat pins of brilliants, and Instead of wearing the hat down over the eyes as fashion has decreed in the recent past, she daringly pints it back off her face. Thus she bows to fashion In wearing the black hat, but openly defies her In the method of wearing It. Health and Drnnly Hind. For unbroken chilblains rubbing with common table salt is one of the best remedies known. Add Just enough water to make the salt damp. The finger nails should be manicured once each week, then if they are scrubbed and polished every day It should ,keep them In good order. A fine-tooth comb, valuable for certain purposes, is capable of Injuring the scalp if used unwisely, for the tiny points, close together, Irritate the Ekln and, far from removing the dandruff, as many persons think, will Increase it. For the circulation of the blood In tho scalp a vigorous brushing In the sun will prove wonderfully helpful. It brings new shimmer and color, and all the unnatural oils are banished by the warm rays, so that the coiffure will be soft and fluffy. A Test of Strength. Perhaps you do not know how strong you are In some ways. Here 13 a trick, which will show you that you have more strength in your arms than jou may have supposed. Hold your hands straight in front of you, with the palms toward you, and the middle fingers of each hand just touching each other. Then ask some one to pull your hands apart. You will be surprised to find that a much bigger, stronger person than you will probably not be able to pull your hands away from each other. I Scour the Irons. ! One point In which the novice In ironing often fails Ilea in not having I the Irons perfectly dean before beginj ning work. To do really good work ' begin by scouring the irons thoroughly I with scap and water. They must not be dried on the lire, as thi3 creates an immediate rust, which works on on tho clothes. Definition f a. Lady. A prize offered by the Gentlewoman (London) for the best definition of a lady was won by the following effort: "To be a lady means, rightly, to be a gentlewoman who shows by her every word and action a sweet and j gentle dignity, with a gracious charm
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of manner. A woman whose heart is pure and true, who is tender toward all suffering, who sympathizes with those In trouble, and Is ever ready to give that which costs her some effort and self-denial. A lady thinks no work derogatory, and no one i3 deemed too low to receive courtesy and kindness. She i3 pure and good in every detail of life, a true friend and a 'ministering angel' in sorrow and in sickness." Comfort for Plain Women. Plain women exist, and form a definite factor in our social economy. Not all of us are blessed with good features, soft eyes, a fine figure and a clear complexion. Some of us are born with dull skins, wide mouths and snub noses, and not all the arts of dress and toilet can make us pretty, or even presentable. But all the same, plain women live and thrive, and now and then make brilliant marriages, says Mrs. Fitzroy Stewart in the Strand. In fact, one has only to use one's eyes to see that some ugly women have for men quite a weird power of. attraction. History teaches U3 this; for we are told, In several Instances, of uncomely women who have ruled the destinies of men and nations. Catherine of Russia and Mme. de Maintenon had no looks; and Mary, Queen of Scots, who has gone down to fame as a beauty, appears in her pictures as thin, small-eyed, and hardfeatured. Indeed, only one portrait Is said to exist in which she Is shown as fair-haired and lovely, and thla hangs In Dalkeith palace, and belong3 to the Duke of Baccleuch. The Family Washing To a boiler of water add one cup washing fluid and one bar of good soap. "White heating sort the clothes, making four piles best white in one, second best white in the second, common white in the third, and colored in the fourth. Put the best clothes in the washer, adding one and onehalf palls of hot water from the boiler, and then enough cold water to cover. Turn the washer wheel from fifty to a hundred times. Wring out the clothes and put Into the boiler. If needed, add more water to boiler. Let clothes boil well. While the first boil wash the second. Take the first from the boiler and put in second, adding one-half cup fluid. Treat all the white in the same way. Then wash the colored without boiling. Put clean cold water In washer. Wash all the clothes through. Then rinse in the washer by giving a few turns to the wheel. Starch without blueing and hang out. Should be done in less than two hours. Tri mm Ins: for the Xevreat Salts. Here is the model of postively the prettiest, daintiest thing in linen suits designed for women this year. The trimming is made of flat folds of the same material stitched on in the form of braiding. Some of these dainty summer clothes show the pattern in close, elaborate designs In spots, while others are decorated all over with long flowing lines, loops and curves. These suits in white, linen color, and dainty shades make Ideal accompaniment for the ever popular flower hats. Porch Clothesline. If you have a back porch or any convenifnee of posts put galvanized screw hooks on Inside of each post; cut your line of either rope or wire for the distances between, tying loops in the ends In each, which can be easily hooked off and on. Put away and keep clean when not in use. Value of Little VIrtnes. Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a thousand spears of grass where he
made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
The hat reproduced here, while not being a strictly tailored model, would be appropriate for wear with that style of dress. For ß mahogany brown was used. The ehape was trimmed by a stiff band of silk, richly embroidered in gold and the different shades from thence to the brown of the straw and bor dered by plain silk in the deepest shade. This band was adjusted in waved lines, the two pointed ends meeting but not joining on the right near , the front. A sweep of handsome aigrettes in tones of brown and gold completed the garniture. A new fancy is the large soft wing, the pointed tip of which runs into a broad, stiff quill. The quill is of tho same color as the wing, but it is usually covered with big dots of a contrasting color. Strings, usually not serving any practical purpose, but caught up and knotted in some graceful fashion, appear upon a number of most picturesque broad-brimmed hats this season. Shantung as a trimming and as a material for stretching over hats is a feature of many of the Paris novelties. It is used for facing panels and for lining coats. Xo Place for a Flirt. The girl who get3 work in an office for the purpose of chasing a man and capturing a lover or a live husband, is of no great service to her employer. Her chances for advancement are slight, and she might better spend her time at home helping to do the dishes. The caprices of the flirt are very apparent as air. Her Reason. "The reason that Belle Married Dillie," said Lillian, "Was simply because He was rated a million. . "The panic came on In a very short season; Then Pill lost his cash, And Belle lost her reason.' Puck. Comment Unnecessary. "Your womanhood will gain nothing by suffrage and la losing every day In Its dignity and Its true influence by the hysterical clamor which Is employed In the pursuit of this chimera," said Bishop Doane of New York to the graduating class in a noted school. Comment seems unnecessary. Chicago Inter Ocean. Cleaning Carpeta. An excellent paste for removing grease from carpets is made by mixing fuller's earth with a little ammonia. This mixture should be thick and should be applied with a lavish hand. Let it remain overnight, then brush oft with a stiff brush. Sometimes it is necessary to put on a second application. Failure Often Means Sucre. It is a great help to admit failure, to confess a fault. For when we really understand why we failed we not only take courage and learn success from failure, but have charity for all who. like ourselves, are striving and falling. The Grnntne Gentleman. After all, it isn't clothes or deportment, or money, or doing as you'd be done by, that makes a gentleman. You've got to be all right and then forget it. Irving Bacheller. Cedar Cleans Irons. An excellent substitute for wax in cleaning irons is a sprig of cedar. It makes the Iron perfectly smooth and gives forth a spicy odor Instead of the hot, unpleasant odor cf burning wax.
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Drilling for oil began a few days ago on the John Foster farm near Heltonville, by the Ohio OH Company, which has leased muih land in that vicinity. Irs. Sam Lochlin, of Hammond, allowed her 2-year-old son to play with her hand bag. The child opened It, found arsenic tablets, ate some and died. With no food for five days and sleeping in box cars for several nights, Jacob Owens, aged 51, claiming to live at Columbus, Ohio, was picked up In Evansville unconscious and sent to a hospital. He may die. Owens came to Evansville to look for work. Paul II. McNeill, of Bloomfield, has confessed robbing Isaac M. Vaugn, county recorder, of a purse containing $80. An affidavit was field against him. The mother of McNeil gave bond in the sum of $500. On account of the social standing of the McNeill family the affair has caused a sensation. Jacob Luckey, for twenty years a teamster for the DIether Lumber Co. at Fort Wayne, was pinched under a falling lumber pile and he has eight ribs and his collar bone broken. Both jaws are bruised and he has a long scalp wound, besides internal injuries which may cause his death. He is 60 years of age. John Young, a bachelor, aged 56, making his home with his brother, Thomas Young, northwest of Warren, near Plum Tree, shot himself In the forehead with a twenty-two caliber target rifle. Despondency over the death of his mother, together with poor health, is supposed to have been the cause of his act. The bullet penetrated the brain. The mother of 17-months-old Helen Rosencranz will undergo an operation at Evansville and give up a part of the skin of her body to be grafted on the body of the child who was seri
ously burned last week when a gasoline stove exploded. The child was playing near the stove when the explosion occurred, and was badly burned about the breast and face. While traveling forty miles an hour a flange on a wheel under the pony trucks of a Pennsylvania engine broke near Shelbyvllle, letting the pilot down, and the train ran a mile east of the city before being stopped. It is a mystery how the wheels remained on the track. A wrecking crew from Columbus had to sidetrack the engine and take the train to Columbus, after three hours' delay. After nearly a year's effort and expending nearly $300, Fred Adrian, a young farmer living southeast of New Castle, has succeeded In getting possession of a gray mare which was stolen August 1, 1903, from a public hitching rack. By accident Mr. Adrian learned that his horse had heen.sold to a man near Columbus, Ohio. He Immediately Instituted suit for. possession, but was unable to get his property. He carried the case to the higher court and was successful. In a battle with cockroaches in the kitchen of a restaurant at Ander&on, Miss Lizzie Rigdon, 32 years old, a took, was probably fatally burned. She was spraying the walls and crevices with gasoline when roach roaked with gasoline fell on a hot atove. Instantly a flash filled the kitchen, roaches were routed, but Miss Rigdon was carried out frightfully burned about her face, arms and chest, and her hair was half burned off. She also inhaled the flame. There was but little damage to the kitchen. Tom Mauger, proprietor of the Indiana Harbor Express Company, bought a piece of limburger cheese and it has already cost him $200. Mauger's wife refused to tolerate it In the house, and so he tied it to a nail out side of his house and the hot weather did tho rest. Mauger forgot about the cheese and his wife told him that there was something wrong with the plumbing. He employed a plumber and In searching through the pipes for defects in sewage, the plumber practically wrecked the house. Then Mauger remembered the cheese and the cause of the smell, and the plumbing bills are still coming in. 1 Fortunatus Miller, a well-known citizen of Elkhart, received word of the death of his mother at Three Rivers one day last week. He says he knew bad news was coming for the old slock which has been in the family 137 years stopped the midnight before, though just wound. He says it performed a similar trick before the death of his grandfather, his graridmother, his father, and each of the five brothers of his grandfather. The death of a cousin was presaged by the clock's striking three times at the exact time of his death. Mr. Miller is the only member of the family who will keep the clock. His mother was 92 years old and all of her eleven brothers and sisters lived to be very old, the youngest to die being 78 years. Several days ago Mrs. Harrison Mounts noticed a sore place on the shoulder of her 2-year-old son Robert. She took him to a physician in Greensburg, who used a knife and found Imbedded in the flesh a large needle. ' Anthony Whisker, a farmer near Shelbyvllle, was assisting In putting hay in the barn when the main rope of the hay tork broke and the hay fell on Whisker, knocking him off the wagon. He was injured internally and will die. Mrs. Samantha Bennett Is defendant in her fifth divorce suit by action filed recently at Sullivan by her husband, Charles Bennett, who charges she drew a revolver on him. Bennett is a teamster. The official board of the Wall Street Methidost Episcopal Church of Jeffersonville has come to the aid of W. H. Whlttaker, former Superintendent of the Indiana Reformatory, and in resolutions express confidence in Whlttaker and score political leaders for the manner iu which they brought about his retirement. A big bank barn on the Babcock farm, on the Root-rreble Township line in Adams County, was struck by lightning and burned, occasioning a loss of several thousand dollars. When the burial of Mrs. Julia Delawater, a widow, aged CS years, of Anderson, took place recently, an ambulance had to be used to transport the body because the casket was so lare a hearse could not admit it. Twelve active pallbearers were required. Mrs. Delawater weighed nearly 400 pounds at the time of her sudden death. She left aa estate of $20,000.
Bernice, the 5-year-old daughter of Robert Pace, of Gas City, set fire to her clothing while playing with, matches and died from burns. Mary E. Ormsby has filed suit at Bluffton asking divorce from her husband, John T. Ormsby, to whom she was married twenty-seven years ago. Arthur H. Walls, a farmer near Greenfield, had his leg broken in two places and suffered other injuries when a load of hay upset and fell on him. Charles Watkins attempted to burn the County Jail at Shelbyvllle. He gathered a bed tick and blanket and removed his clothing, put all in a pile and set it on fire. The fire was burning fiercely when discovered, but was soon extinguished by Deputy Sheriff Laws. Watkins awaits commitment to an insane asylum. William Warder Hamilton of Greeitrburg, sent up a paper balloon bearini his name and address on a card several days age. Two days later he received a souvenir post card from Winchester, Ky., stating that the balloon had landed in that city. By air line Winchester is 150 miles southeast of Greensburg. . William and Jacob Evans, two small children, were at the home of Philip Yarling, near Shelbyvllle, and they were playing around a wind pump when they caught their hands in the machine. The boy had one finger taken off at the first joint and the girl. In trying to assist the boy, had one of her fingers taken off at the joint, i Carllus F. Kepper, foreman o, the jointing shop of the Bauer Cooperage Works In Lawrenceburg, was struck ia the right eye 'by a piece of steel from a circular saw that burst. The sight of the eye was destroyed and it Is thought that he will lose the sight of
the other eye.' Kepper served as corporal in Company M, 161st Indiana Volunteers during the Spanish-American War. ' John H. Luchtman, an aged farmer and veteran of the Civil War, was bitten by a rattlesnake on his farm, five miles south of Michigan City. He was mowing in a meadow and stopped to remove some grass that had choked the sickle, when he touched the reptile and it sank its fangs into his hand. His wrist was bound with twine and he was hurriedly taken to a hospital. He will recover. The snake was killed. It had five rattles. Albert Sboaf, rural carrier on route No. 3 at Petersburg, has purchased an, automobile and hereafter will use it la delivering the mail. Mr. Shoaf has had much trouble In keeping his horses in condition to travel twentyfive miles a day. By using an auto he can work three-fourths of the day for himself and at the same time draw his salary from the Government. If the experiment is successful, several other automobiles will be bought at once. Lightning struck the same house twice within fifteen minutes during an electrical storm at Hagerstown. The first bolt tore the roof and weatherboarding from the northwest gable of the house owned by Arch Benbow. Less than fifteen minutes Jater a second crash came and Mr. Benbow was severely shocked. This bolt had entered the back kitchen, melted a nail where it entered, and run along a heavy oak stringer which was reduced to splinters as fine as matches. The fluid encountered a second nail and turned from Its course and Its trace was lost Detectives, following a trail of white flour from the Steck & Miller grain establishment in M uncle, arrived at the grocery of Ellas Bromagen and there asked him whether he had not received a large quantity of stolen flour. Bromagen admitted that he had purchased of strangers in the middle of the night considerable flour about which he had asked no question, and he surrei.dered this. He also produced certain empty sacks that had contained flour stolen from the confectionery store of Charles Hlnkley and said that he had obtained that from the same meto, i No arrests have beea made. When J." A. Landers, county treasurer at Martinsville, opened his mail a few days ago he found a money order for $2.14, accompanied by a letter from a former Morgan County citizen, la which the latter said he wished to correct a wrong committed in 1907, when he failed to list $100 worth of his personal property. He knew the tax rate for that year for his township and enclosed the proper amount. The writer did not mention the township, but Treasurer Landis made an examination and found which township had that rate and then found the man's name on the tax duplicate. The amount was put on the duplicate and a receipt was sent him for his taxes for that year. The man now lives In another part of this State, Hershel Cooper, the 16-year-old son of Leamon Cooper, was drowned In D. W. Hayes pond about one-half mile north of Odon. Cooper and a few other boys were swimming when Cooper was seized with cramps and sank. The first cement sidewalk In Goshen, laid thirty-four years ago in front of the residence of Mrs. J. M. Noble, has jast been torn up to be replaced by a new one. Only the havoc wrought by roots of trees growing near made It necessary to tear up the old walk. Joseph Robblns, aged 56 years, came from Splceland and took poison In Maxwell Briscoe Park, New Castle. Boys flying kites came across the still breathing man and called assistance, but he died. Through the kindness of their neighbors, Wallace Boszor and family, whose home south of Kendallvllle was , recently destroyed by fire, now have a new modern home nearly completed and in a few days will move in. All the material and labor were furnished by the neighbors free of cost to the family, whose members are poor. Mrs. Lafayette Tryon, residing west of Bippus, has probably the oldest clock In that section of Indiana. It can be traced back In the family 2Z0 years and she has refused $2,500 for iL "Old Charley," a Peru horse which has been In the fire department service for twenty years, was recently sold to a farmer some miles from the city. A day or two later the faithful old animal broke out of his pasture, returned to the city and presented himself at the fire station at midnight, awakening the firemen by his demands to be taken back into his old quarters.