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CHAPTER IX. (Continued.) At this second snub, Mrs. Herbert leemed to find it harder work than ever lo keep np her smile, but as he left th room she made a fresh effort. I am so glad to know your name, Sear, for it sounds unfriendly to call you Mrs. James. Mathilde ! What a pretty name ! But not exactly English, is it?" She spoke the word "Enslish" as another might the word "holy." Xo, It's French," was the uncompromising answer. "Oh, yes. of course. We quite erpectid you to be French, you know. Indeed, I was surprised when you spoke in English. I thought you would look so much more foreign." Mathilde had gathered from her husband's manner a knowledge of what his game was to be, and wishing to play up to it, said, rather sharply : "I am not French, but my mother was." f But Mrs. Herbert was not easily sat upon. "Oh, aren't you really, dear? How nice, how very nice for me ! I have been to nerrons as to how we ahould get on together, because I couldn't at all fancy wha you would be like, never having seen a Canadian ; and sow I see that you are just like any English person, and I daresay that although it may seem to you a little strange at first, you will soon feel Quite at home among us." Mathilde' patience was fast wearing out. Thankt, I don't feel at all strange. It all seems delightfully homelike," she answered, somewhat aggressively. "How nicel" cooed the other. "And to think how I dreaded this meeting. It eeried on both sides to have such a ihadow of death over it. First my dear husband, and then your sweet boy. How I have felt for you." Her handkerchief was at her eyes now, and Mathilde began to find the situation Intolerable. The room was warm, the air heavy with the acent of hyacinths, and sitting In front of the fire with her big fur coat n, she seemed stifling. She felt that the other woman meant to take her hand, and that she could not bear it. ' "You are very kind," she said, with as much gentleness as 6he could bring into ker voice, then rising suddenly: 'I really must take my furs off." "You poor dear! How neglectful of me! Why you must be weighted down with that sealskin all this time! What magnificent fur! In England it would have cost a fortune, but I suppose that out thero you get it for next to nothing." Mathilde laughed, remembering the price which her father had last year paid a Montreal furrier for the coat, while k was evidently the lady's impression that South Sea seals were to be shot wClle walking about oa the prairies. CHAPTER X. These are your rooms," Mrs. Herbert announced a little later, as she threw cpen a door, leading from the upper hallway. In a tone which showed that she expected the newcomer to be overwhelmed with delight. If Mathilde was overwhelmed It was not quite in the fashion anticipated, for dainty as the rooms were in their Louis Quinze fittings, they consisted only of a large bedroom, a smaller sitting-room and dressing-room. However, she bethought herself in time to conceal her dismay that he tad better acquiesce quietly, and leave the matter in her husband's hands. Mrs. Herbert had her surprise, too, for waiting in the bedroom was Jeanne, looking very placidly in possession. "Bvar me,, who's this?" and under the Influence of the surprise her voice became much more acid. "Did you bring a maid? I had no idea." "Did you think I should not need one?" The question, though Amiable, did not Increase Mrs. Herbert's amiability. 1 "Of course not, but I did net think that you would bring one with you, and had already looked cut a nice respectable girl In the village." Mathilde smiled. It was a 'most to the word what Stewart had predicted. "How kind in you !" she retorted, "but I think that I prefer a French maid to an Inexperienced viHage girl." "French! exclaimed the other. "I should not have thought that you were so used t French maids on the prairies." "Wouldn't you?" the other answered, with a glance that was a danger signal. A a such her sister-in-law evidently read It, for, pulling herself together, she said tveetly : "But I really must leave you to rest." Ilardly had the door closed behind her when (mach to the amazement of Jeanne) Mathilde broke into a wild peal of laughter; but 6he soon quieted herself, ind there was no sign of over-strained Derres, when, presently, Stewart knocked at the sitting-room door. "You seem settled down," he said. "So they have given you these rooms," and he strolled to the other door, taking a comprehensive survey. "These will do very nicely for you, and there is a big bedroom across the corridor that I shall take. I'll speak tc Hutchinson about it, he announced coolly. Mathilde sat silent, apparently busy in sorting over some bills and memoranda, the .esult of her London shopping. "Well," he said, strolling back towards her, "and how did you set on with the sister-in-law?" She laughed. "Much as you did, I fantj. She told me that as she had never Mn a Canadian she had not known what to expect me to be like, and that she shouldn't have supposed that I was used to French maids. "Dear creature! I hope you stood up o her." "Oh, yes ; I did not mind her," she answered carelessly, and then, seeing that he looked somewhat jaded, she asked: "How did you find your father?" "Very much changed, it was rather a trying interview. He is Tery anxious to see you, but seemed too tired just now. I suggested that you should go up after you are dressed for dinner. Would that o?" "Oh, yes." "He was very kind about the little chap," he said in a low voice, and there was silence between them in the fire-lit room, but a silence not wanting in sympathy. It was with a strange mixture of feelings that Mathilde sat, ready dressed waiting for her husband. She wore the same plain Mack evening dress as she had In town, with a beautiful spray of creamy roses across the front made the black les. severe. "Look at my offering from the head gardener," ehe said, pointiug to the flowin as Stewart entered. "Poor old Duncan ! He was at the station to meet us. It's queer what a weakness old retainers have Tor prodigals." Then with an abrupt change of subject: "I see that you have on your pearl necklace." "Yea. don't jrou like it?" she asked, wondering. "Oh. yes; nothing cou.'d suit you better. But the poor, old father is possessed with the idea of handing over to you, trithout delay, the family jewels. He had

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o o o of Hearts Ö o s o o o o o 0 o o JOHN Leslie Publishing Mous the boxes all out on the table, and I think that it would please him if you were to wear some of them this evening." He laughed with a touch of tenderness as he spoke of the old man, with the jewel boxes by him. She looked up at him with startled eyes. "The family jewels! But surely, I am not the person to have them. Mrs. Herbert " He interrupted her: "Mrs. Herbert wore them when she was the heir's wife. Now she has nothing to do with them. You have taken her place." "I don't wonder she hates me!" she said with emphasis. Then, with a sudden overwhelming sense of shame, "Oh, what must you think of me, accepting so much from you!" James Stewart had once been told that he should have been a doctor, he had such soothing power over nerves. "It's hardly wise to waste your strength on opening up that question just now. We are on the field of battle. It will be a victory for you to wear the emeralds to dinner to-night." His treatment was wise, and her selfcontrol was recovered. "The emeralds!" she said; "I only hope they aren't very wonderful." He laughed. "They are indeed. The necklace and aigrette are historical. The wife of Sir James the cavalier fled from him and from Orkwell for fear that he should let them go into King Charles' treasury. The bracelets are of later date, but considered nearly as valuable. Mr?. Herbert will be as green as they are when she sees you in them." "But do you think it's fair?" Mathilde protested. He was not to be moved. "All fair in war, and this is war, remember. It was not I who began it, and I am only fighting for my rights." His face had grown stern again as he spoTTe. "But we must not keep my father waiting. He said seven, and it struck just now. Will you come?" Down a long corridor they went to a part of the house shut off by baize doors, hushed and still, with heavy curtains, and dim with shaded lights, where in an invalid armchair sat the helpless old man. There was nothing unattractive about the invalid; a rich down quilt covered his helpless limbs; his thin, white hands moved freely, and the clear-cut features that might have been carved in time-yellowed ivory wore a kindly smile. As the door opened, the white head was eagerly turned towards It, and one hand was outstretched in anticipation. "Come in, come in, Jem," said a feebly impatient voice; "come and let me see my new daughter." The feeble old age and the word "daughter" touched a recent sore spot in Mathilde' s heart, and with an impulse that was wholly genuine, she came swiftly forward, and kneeling by his chair, where the light from the shaded lamp fell full upon her, laid her two hands on his. "Oh, will you let me be your daughter?" she said, with the pathos of her unconscious loneliness. The old man gazed tat her for a moment in silence, then he said, in broken tones, "My dear child, my beautiful child ! James, why did you nof fell me how beautiful she was? She is the right kind of mistress for Ork well and the 'pride of race strengthened the weak voice. "I kept it as a pleasant surprise for you. father," the son answered; and Mathilde could tell from his voice how pleased he was. With a sudden, shy fear that her impulse would have seemed to him but acting, sh would have riseri, but the old mn said with a detaining grasp;- "No, no, my dear, stay here in the light and let me see ytu. I want to see you in th family jewels. Jem, hand me the case with the emeralds." What woman could suppress a word of admiration at the sight of that wonderful necklace, lying on the white velvet, with the aigrette reposing in the middle! "Oh, how beautiful!" Mathilde breathed, and Sir James touched them with lingering fondness. "Yes, Jem's mother wore them, fifty years ago, when she was presented. You must wear them at. the drawing-room next spring. Put them on for her, Jem." Then and there, Mathilde would have gladly sacrificed the necklace to have prevented that deep wave of crimson that dyed her face and neck at the touch of her husband's hands. With the light streaming full upon her she was powerless to hide ir, and she knew that Stewart must notice it, though he gave no sign, fastening the clasp with a quick, light touch. "There, what a color it gives you !" the old man said, triumphantly. "Now, Jem, the aigrette." This time she was prepared, and With a light movement was on her feet. "Oh, let me do it at the glass. He will rumple my hair,' she said gaily, and he handed the ornament to her in silence. When she turned from the glass though, he held a bracelet ready, and she put out her arm for him to fasten it on. "There, father," he said, stepping back to view the general effect, "I think that I chose a wife to suit the emeralds. Shall we put them back in their cases?" he asked, watching Sir James intently. "No, no," his father answered hurriedly, as though keeping his courage to the sticking point. "I want her to wear them to dinner to-night. I shan't be there, but I shall know how she looks, and shall think of the times when your mother wore them. The other things she can look at to-morrow. But, my dear," he went on with a timorous grasp at her hand, "you won't mind Flora sitting at the head of the table, will you? It wouldn't seem kind, would It?" He looked up timorously at her, but showed instant relief as she responded warmly : "Qh, no, I wouldn't dream of anything else." 'That's a good girL A good girl." and he patted the hand he held. "Thank God, there are some children left me ! My boy is gone, and your boy Is gone. The children taken and the fathers left. God send us children in the old home again, my dear. The place is dreary without children's voices, dreary," and the scant tears of old age fell. v Mathilde stood there, decked out in her splendor, but with a fierce shame burning in her heart. The cold touch of the jewels on nec-k and arms felt like the material touch of her disgrace. But Stewart was quick to come to the rescue. "We must not tire my father any more now. We will come in the morning." And with a tender good-night that soothed her heart, he let them go. They walked in silence some little uistance before Stewart spoke : "How can I tb.ink you erjough for your manner to my father. You have completely won him.' He had spoken with more feeling than usual, but Mathilde chose to think that he considered hers a successful piece of acting, and answered coldly: "I felt sorry for him." "Yes, I saw that you did," he responded, quietly. "But now comes the tug-of-war." He had no fears as he followed her down the wide oak staircase. But as that couple of so goodly a bearing walked side by side up the length of the drawing-

room, there were two surprises given. Mrs. Herbert sat opposite to the door, and as she looked towards them, and caught the flash of the familiar jewel on that white neck, a cold rage came over her, and she stared helplessly for a moment before her face settled into calm, hard lines of spite. But hers was not the only suprise, for James Stewart was too much taken aback by the sight of a ghost to have eyes of appreciation for his sifter in-law's discomfiture. His ghost was not outwardly alarming in appearance, being a small Dresden China shepardess sort of a woman, who in dainty leA-gown of pa blue and pink infs sat on the opposite side of the heaftk from Mrs. Herbert. In tj?at soft pmWbaoVd light her aspect was that of a young girl, but even then a close observer could have seen that the apple-blossom skin had none of the freshness of youth, though the pale, fluffy yellow hair was evidently abundant and genuine. Between the two women a tall, asceticlooking parson was standing. Mrs. Herbert, occupied in the task of pulling herself together, sat watching the newcomer's approach without speaking, but as they drew near the little group, a malicious light flashed into her pale eyes, and she began volubly : "Oh, you must forgive me for not telling you that James would meet old friends to-night, but I quite forgot to say that cousin Nellie has been staying with us for Christmas." - "And you surely wouldn't have the heart to turn me out." came a light laugh from the Dresden China figure on the sofa, as she stretched out a welcoming hand over which numerous bracelets twinkled then with a pretty trcmulousness : "Welcome home again, Jem. and let me greet your wife as a cousin." (To be continued.)

X ON THE RAGGED EDGE. In Journeying through the "Bad Lands" of the West In 1876 in search of fossll3 Charles II. Sternberg encountered many perils. In a volun e entitled "The Life of a Fossil Hunter" he relates the story of an adventure where a misstep nearly cost him his life. One day the professor asked me to climb a point near the summit of a lofty ridge, crowned by two massive ledges of sandstone four feet thick, which projected over the steep slope like the window sills 'of some Titanic building. Tht'se ledges, one above the other and separated by fifty feet of shale, had been swept clean for about three feet, so that I found an easy pathway for my feet when, after laborious climbing, I reached the lower ledge. From my lofty perch I had a bird'seye view of mile upon mile of the wonderful Bad Lands, a scene of desolation such as no pen can picture. It was my duty to search every square Inch of the dust-covered slope between the ledges for fossil bones. After much unsuccf isful effort, I came to a place at the head of a gorge where a perpendicular escarpment dropped downward for a thousand feet. The upper edge of sandstone had broken loose for a space of thirty feet, and this huge mass of rock, four feet thick, carrying with It the loose dirt and polishing the underlying surface as It thundered down the slope, had struck the lower ledge with such force that it, too, had broken loose and plunged downward Into the abyss. A grove of pine trees at the base of the cliff had been crushed to the earth by this avalanche. To my view, the remaining trees, which I knew to be about fifty feet high, appeared like seedlings, and the vast mas3 of rock like a cobblestone. I concluded that I should hare no difficulty In crawling acrosi the smooth space, for I reasoned that if I began to slip, I could drive the sharp end of my pick Into the soft rock and thus stop myself. So, climbing up the slope through the loose earth to the base of the upper ledge, I started to cross. When I was half-way over I began to slip, and confidently raising my pick, I struck the rock with all my might. God grant that I may never again feel such horror as I felt then, when the pick, upon which I had depended for safety, rebounded as useless In my hands as a bit of straw! I struck frantically again and again, but all the time I was sliding down with ever-Increasing rapidity toward the edge of the abyss, safety on either side and certain and awful death below. To this day I do not know how I escaped. I suddenly found myself lying on the ledge, on the s'de I had left a moment before. Probably some part of my clothing, covered with dust as it was, had acted as a brake upon the polished surface. I lay for an hour with trembling knees, too weak to make my way back to camp. Nothing Funny About It. Scene A druggist's shop in a small Scotch village, which, as usual with druggist's shops similarly situated, is the general emporium for all sorts of merchandise. Traveling tourist enters and purchases a cigar, after lighting which he attempts to draw the proprietor into conversation, but the latter seems reticent. The tourist, after passing some remarks on the weather, asked: "Don't you feel trade dull at times in this little village, chemist?" "Oh, well," replied the druggist, "I canna complain. But, excuse me, malster. I dlnna alloo smok.'n in my shop." Indeed!" said the tourist. That is strange. You sell tobacco and cigars ad still don't permit smoking in your shop. It is really rather funny." "Ou, man," was the reply, "there's naethlng funny aboot It. I sell arsenic, but I dlnna alloo ye to commit suicide In my shop!" I'nnaual. "What makes that fellow so popr lar?" "He'll listen to a funny story without Insisting on telling another." Kansas City Journal. From Their Ilnubmidn. Mr. Oldwed Well, girls always like fairy stories. Mrs. Oldwed It's a good thing, for after they grow up and get married they have to listen to a lot of them. The nobleness of life depends on its consistency clearness of purpose luiet and ceaseless energy. All doubt, and repenting, and blotching, and retouching, and wondering what it will be best to do next, are vice as well as misery. John Ituskin. To refuse to yield to others when reason or a special cause require it Is a mark of pride and stiffness. Thomas a Kempls. That man 13 nevtr deleated war ho?es. Seekings.

CORN CROP REDUCED By DROUGHT AND HEAT

Government Report Shows Shrink ajc of 338,000,000 Bushels -".' Hay Loses, SPRING WHEAT ALSO DROPS August Falling Off in Oats Estimated at 40,000,000 Eye Develops Gain. August heat and drought reduced the corn crop promise by 33S.0OO.000 bushels, according to the government crop report. Of this loss 290 000,000 bushels were taken off the seven corn surplus States. The indicated corn crop, according to the government figures, is 2,005,243,000 bushels, a3 compared with 2,013,162,000 bushels, indicated a month ago. The crop thus dropped öowu from first place to third. The report on corn was a distinct surprise even to the most radical believer? in crop damage. The government figures show a decline of practically ten points during August, the condition Sept. 1 being 74.6, as against Sl.4 on Aug. 1. The ten-year average for Sept. 1 is S0.6, or six points higher than the officially reported condition now given. The present report indicates a crop of 2,000,243,000 bushels, or 223,000,000 bushels less than the record crop raised In 1906. Probably next in importance to the corn crop losses, viewing the. reports PRESIDENT fckUf """" III . V I! II: T I mmmmmm :;:i::r::::::i::;::;s ;::?:::;':::::V i: J Z I I from a national rather than f.-'jm the grain dealers' standpoint, is the showing made on hay. The crop is officially given at 64,166,000 tons, as compared with 70,798,000 tons a year ago, when the yield was the largest ever recorded. The los3 of 10,000,000 bushels in spring wheat is comparatively unimportant, as the total indicated yield of 714,302,000 bushels winter and spring compares with C60.000.000 bushels last year, thus making the present crop approximately 50,000.000 bushels larger than that of last year. All other features of the government report were comparatively commonplace. August losses in oats were about 49,000,000 bushels, thus patting the crop from first to fourth place and indicating .1 yield of 949.965.000 bushels. The report also showed a falling off of about 10,000,000 bushels each in r.pring wheat and barley, while the rye crop showed a gain of about l.OOO.OOO bushels. Pro.vdrnt Taft has decided that. jrini.ing July next, the enlisted force of the aimy shall not be greater than 80,000 men. This reduction of the army will enable the President to further decrease the cost of the government. At present ther is an aggregate of about 88.00C men in the army. The interstate commerce commission will soon investigate the charges made by President Stickney, of the Chicago Great Western Railroad regarding rebating which he claims Is Increasing rather than diminishing at railroad centers. The government bars are up against the live Btock of Switzerland, on account of the prevalence of the foot and mouth disease among domestic animals in that country. -: : - Internal revenue collector's have been Instructed to canvass their respective districts and obtain for the Treasury Department a list of the corporations which will be subject to the new corporation tax embodied In the Payne tariff law. The trophies from the Roosevelt African hunt which were recently shipped to this country are now at the Smithsonian Institution and have been safely stored away In the taxidermist's store room. Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture will not abate his warfare against bleached flour. As soon as the department of justice can attend to the work several cases relating to alleged violation of Secretary Wilson's orders concerning bleached liour will be prosecuted. Treasury Department officials have purchased the site for the new subtreasury at San Francisco. Congress has not yet made any provision for the subtreasury building in that city to replace the old, which Is Inadequate for the business handled. The Tostoffice Department is Issuing a new two-cent stamp to commemorate the discovery of the Hudson River and the Introduction of steam navigation on Its waters. A watch Is composed of ninetyight pieces.

MOVING A GREAT SIYFU.

Nebraska Stream Is to Be Carried 100 Miles Overland. To bring the greatest river in Nebraska 100 miles overland, crossing other river. and streams en route, at a cost of $7,000,000. is the plan for which construction contracts have already been signed. The object of the great work is the development, of force to the extent of 200,000 horse i;ower for he use of the great packing houses and flour mills Of Omaha. All plans have been made, the scheme financed fend contract let. The strourn which is' to be carried overland is tha Loup, the river having the largest flow oi water in Nebraska, and, according to the United States Geological Survey,- the stream having the most uniform Row of water In all the world, drouths Of floods seeming never to influence it. The Platte river, commonly known as the largest in Nebraska, has not the strong flow of water possessed by the Loup. Practically the entire Loup river will be diverted from its present bed and conducted across the country on an entirely different level from the one given the river by nature. In if? new course the Loup will cross the Elkhorn river, the fourth largest stream In the State, on a great concrete bridge high up in the air. The same course will be pursued in crossing smaller streams and depressions too large to fill. The big plan which has just been financed and made public contemplates diverting the Loup from its present course, at Genoa, Neb. Here the stream flows eastward, but the new river will be conducted northward, 17 miles, to a vast natural reservoir, seven miles long, at the lower end of which a dam, 120 feet high, will be constructed. From the top of this dam 'penstocks will lead the wa-

TAFT'S 13.CO0 MILE TOUR OF THE COUNTRY.

I - 1 ! 1 nM' 11X61 ATt A 1 a I 0sV it.tw TWO !JrfAV Ca. C 0 I ter td water wheels, 120 feet behow, where 50.000 horse power will be generated and sent to Omaha over copper wires. After leaving the dam the water will continue in the new channel provided for It for 20 miles, when another natural reservoir is encountered, and a fall of SO feet obtained. At this point, near Schuyler, Neb., 30,000 horse power is to be generated and sent onward to the big packing houses at Omaha. Again the river will be made captive and conducted along its new channel to the Maple Creek valley, where another plant is to produce S0f000 horse power. Near Fremont still another plant will generate 40,000 horse power, and then the last stage of the artificial river Is to be begun. Between Fremont and Omaha, about 40 miles, the greatest engineering feat of the development is planned. This is the crossing of the river high up above the Elkhorn river, which traverses a deep valley. The Loup will be conducted over this stream on a giant concrete bridge, the largest In the country. From this point to Omaha the new river will pass through hills bordering on the Missouri river, and finally will plunge over the very crest of the highest of these Into the Missouri, in a cataract 75 feet high, generating 50,000 horse power. The total energy generated at the five falls will be 200,000 horse power. There is no coal mined in Nebraska. and every pound of energy must at present be generated from coal, oa which enormous freight rates are paid, the cost of generatlong being $S0.2S a horse power a year, as compared with the $18.81 for which the same power can be purchased after the Loup is harnessed. UIk Forest Reserves. Three States. New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, have over 50,000 acres in State forest lands. Ten of the forty-six States have forest reserves. Ex-SIormon Apostle Is Dead. Moses Thatcher, prominent in business and political life In Utah, died In Logan, Utah, recently. He was formerly a Mormon apostle and withdrew because of his candidacy for the United States Senate in 189S. Tiy the bursting of a cannon at the farmers' picnic and fair at Escanaba, Mich., Paul Paulson, aged 18, a private in the Escanaba Naval Reserves, was killed, and Fred Winchester, also a private, dangerously Injured. Soldiers' Home Wireless Station. Naval experts wish the National Soldiers' Home, at Washington, D. C, as the high power wireless telegraph station which the Navy Department is considering for the purpose of communicating with ships 3,000 mites at sea. Agricultural Fairs Popular. The growth ot the agricultural fair idea Is shown by the fact that fairs will be held this year in forty-six States and Territories of the United States and in forty-one of these States and Territories State or interstate fairs will be tul. Hespert Forela-it 'Mints. Dr. E. Piatt Andrew, of New York, the new director of the United States mint, has sailed for Europe, accompanying Senator Aldrich, chairman of the national monetary commission. The new director wishes to Inspect the mints at London and Paris. A new tobacco war has been started at Covington, Ky., by the filing of a suit by Clark & Scott, independent manufacturers, against the Hurley Society, demanding $135,520, said to have been overcharged on tobacco bought by them.

PRICE OF FOOD HAS DOUBLED IN U. S. IN LAST 13 YEARS.

Old 5-Ctnt Loaf Costs 10 Cents Novr and Cost of Meat and Vegetables Has Seen Sent Soaring. This table gives the price per pound of all commodities on July 1, 1S06, and the first of the month of August, 1009. The total shows an increase of $2.S0 per pound over the prices of thirteen years ago, or 40.1 per cent. 1896. ?0.0524 .1855 1.S619 .1210 .3757 .0048 .2082 .0402 .0716 .6607 .2150 1909. $0.1079 .3833 Breadstuff Live stc4'! 1 1 1 1 Provisions Fruits ,i Hides and leather textiles 2.0S06 .1725 1.2500 2.4576 Metals .5600 Coal and coko Oils . Naval stores , Building materials . Chemicals and drugs Miscellaneous ... ... .(059 .4115 .0784 .0732 .6187 .3041 Totals $3.7019 IS.5039 The fact that it costs more to live from year to year is the harassing certainty which confronts every family in city and country. Every" house keeper knows that it takes $2 to meet the needs that $1 easily supplied some years ago. And those who have not had the extra dollar have been forced to put up with a smaller loaf of bread, a poorer quality of tea or less of It and have been obliged to pay more for meat. Bradstreet's table of present commodity prices shows that the advance in the price of commodities now over 1S96 Is a trifle more than $2.80, or an Increase of 49.1 per cent. A glance at the table shows that this increase Is confined almost entirely to the necessities of life. Breadstuffs have more than doubled in price. This means either that a 5-cent loaf of -TV,VW YORK. iCcbxi i, J. jraxTHCAPaLwAi iT.y.:-:;:;:;:;:;.::;:::.:;:;: thirteen years ago has been advanced to 10 cents or has shrunk to half In size or weight. The first national labor congress was held at Baltimore, August 20, 1866. James Farley, the noted strikebreaker, intends to retire and to devote himself to his race torses. Eakers International Union, with a membership of 2,100 In 1898, now shows a total of 16,200 members. The New Jersey Federation of Labor has endorsed woman's suffrage and will send a memorial to Congress, signed by 100,000 workmen. At a conference In "Melbourne of representatives of the Iron Workers' Assistants' Association of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and South Australia, it was resolved to form a federation. During the last three years- the Carpenters' Union has had the greatest increase in membership, the Typographical Union the greatest reduction of working hours, and the Machinists Union had the greatest number of strikes, and, it Is claimed, won a larger percentage of their contests than any, otlr craft. The wave of prosperity that Is sweeping over the country is best reflected in New York City by the great number of workingmen who are In employment to-day, as against the adverse conditions twelve months ago. Labor leaders for several weeks past have been compiling figures. The tables thus prepared show 2.000 idle garment workers out of 50,000, against 23,000 idle last j-ear; of 100,000 building workers 25.000 are idle, against 40,000 last year; 7,000 ctearmakers were out last year, against 500 to-day there are 28,000 at work; there were 30,000 garmentmakers out in 1908, and but 5,000 are idle this year. The metal trades, however, still seem to suffer, about one-third of their number 15.000 being out of work. A movement has been started in Canada to cause Canadian trade unionists to withdraw from the American Federation of Labor. It is feared that auch a step may lead to a labor war between trade unionists of the two countries In future strikes. After months of work the Illinois commission (three labor men on the commission) drafted a bill of thirtythree sections, thirty-one of which were unqualifiedly favorable to labor.) The bill is now a law, and gives Illinois the best labor code in the country, if not in the world. The labor law of the District of Columbia, passed by Congress as an experiment a year ago. Is reported to be working successfully. It has resulted In a reduction of the number of establishments employing children and in general betterment of labor conditions. If the country can escape for another year from any serious labor troubles, in all probability' a new era of prosperity will begin, says the Washington Post. The evidence comes from all sections that a revival has begun, but still the ranks of the unemployed number many thousands, and real, genuine prosperity cannot come until work Is found for these unemployed. The trades In the building industry of Jamaica, West Indies, are organizing Into unions affiliated with the .American Federation of Labor. At Kingston the printers, pressmen and bookbinders have also organized. Vagabondage Is In the nature of a disease, and it should be treated as such. The whole country Is stirred up over the movement for good roads, and in many parts one of the difficulties in the way is the securing of laborers to construct the proposed improved highways. In one State it has been suggested that tramps be corralled and forced to become producers instead of consumers by workKg on the roads.

REVIEW OF INDIANA

While he was returning from a picnic at Cedar Lake, E. Schmitt, aged 30, of Chicago, w's Instantly killed by a. Morion train at Hammoni The dedication of the Scottish Rite Cathedral at Fort Wayne will be held November 16. 17 and IS. Tht work I- y - Ä I and day. The Supreme Council will at tend the dedication. The present Indications are that the class to take the degrees from fourth up will exceed four hundred". Mrs. Frank Cour, her two daughters', the Misses Carrie and Bertha, her son Frank and Frank Thompson, all of Fort Wayne, are all expected to recover after a serious Illness from toadstool poisoning. The people were under the impression that they were eating mushrooms. The hasty administration of antidotes saved the family. Coroner Allred has filed his verdict relative to the death1 o William Warren, a farmer living near Maplewood, who was killed on the night of August 26, near Brownsburg. Warren's body was found along the tracks of the Ben Hur traction line. Coroner Allred found that Warren met his death by being assaulted by an unidentified man. V. H. Ewers, of Danville, 111., was in Carlisle looking at a site for a manufacturing concern, now located at Terre Haute, that is soon to be dismantled and moved to some town where raw material can be obtained more readily. The factory manufactures various, kinds of clay products and gives employment to 150 workmen. Mark Remington, aged 68, a prominent citizen of Bangor, Mich., rather than suffer rheumatic pains, committed suicide by shooting himself In the temple at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Justice Harding in South Bend, where he had been living. Remington had been engaged in selling patent medicine to farmers near South Bend for some time. Captain E. M. Baldwin, pilot in the government service during the Civil War, who has been in army service for forty years, now stationed at the rdepot of the quartermaster's depart ment in Jeffersonville, is one of three veteran employes of the place whose wages have just been cut. Hereafter Captain Baldwin will receive $1,000 Instead of $1,800 a year. Word was received in Bloomlngton that the Government had purchased theW. T. Hicks and Dr. P. C. Holland lots at the corner of College avenue and Seventh street as a site for the new postofflce. The total cost of the two lots was $14,500. An effort will be made to start the construction work in early spring. The amount appropriated for the Government building is $66,000. The contract has been let by Superintendent James AI. Sutton, to the Hummer Construction Company, of Marion, Ohio, at $64,473 for dredging the Salamonia river from Pennvllle, Jay County, to the Mataraoras bridge, near Montpelier, Blackford County, a distance of seven mill's. Figures of five other bidders ranged as high as $81.150. Actual work will begin in three months. A peculiar situation has developed in Princeton -school circles. Unless about twenty pupils of Patoka Township are immediately transferred to the city High School patrons threaten to bring suit to compel the recognition of such transfers. The pupils whose transfers have been held up have enrolled with the city High School and expect to take thbnr places among the classes. As a result of the sudden Increase in attendance the High School Is crowded to , overflowing and the faculty Is unable to cope with the situation at present, as the seating capacity of the High School department is only 158, while 170 pupils are1 enrolled. That Newton L. Gilbert, former Congressman from the Twelfth District and erstwhile Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, who now holds one of the big Government positions in the Philippines, is getting to be as big a man as President Taft figuratively speaking is exemplified by the fact that he is now occupying the house that was Taft's home when the latter was Governor of the Philippines. This information is gleaned from letters written to friends by Gilbert. The former Fort Wayne man states that his new home is situated in one of the most desirable residence portions of Manila directly on the bay. Mr. Gilbert writes that he and his wife have recently returned from a three weeks trip to Australia. They were accompanied on this trip by Bishop Brent, one of the foremost religious leaders of the island. He has purchased a big touring car and with this makes trips around' the island. Be fore long, he writes, he expects to return to Fort Wayne for a visit, but he states that he is entirely too busy at the present time to fix any definite date for his return. Anna Scofield, aged S9 years, widow 3f Darius Scofield, died at Elkhart from pneumonia. Six children, a sister, aged 97, and a brother, aged 82, survive her. She was of Dutch descent and was born near Buffalo, N. Y. Christian C. Walda, 53 years old and a prominent contractor and builder of Fort Wayne, was killed at Huntington. He stepped on the interurban track to signal the car to stop. The xnotorman failed to slacken the speed and the car struck him, killing him instantly. Prof. W. S. Hiatt, superintendent of the Frankfort schools, killed himself in that city by taking carbolic acid. He was found in the basement by the janitor of the building. Hiatt was elected superintendent about a month. ago. No cause is known for his act. A blazing automobile belonging to Herman Fedler, of Hammond, that caught fire following a gasoline explo sion in a Crown Point garage, placed that city in peril of destruction by flames. Fedler and O'Bright, owners of the garage, were each badly burned In extinguishing the flames. After being warned by his mother to remain away from the railroad track, Arthur Brlstow, aged 11 years, of Evansville, was killed while trying to steal a ride on an Evansville & Terre Haute train. While Mrs. R. A. Brown, of Bluffton, was sitting in the yard she was at tacked by a large eagle, measuring six feet from tip to tip of wings. She was badly frightened, but seizing a club succeeded in driving off the bird. Mrs. Brown's injuries were slight, consisting of numerous scratches and torn 1 - A

George Huber, aged 50 years, of Fort Wayne, walked out of his bedroom window in a dream and sustained injuries that may prove fatal. - - James T. Johnson, aged S3 years, Insane, created a panic in Terre Haute when he attempted to assault a pedestrian with a knife. At police headquarters six policemen had a task in keeping him under restraint Johnson was sent to a hospital and escaped. No trace of the inasne man has been found since hfs escape. ' 12? Labor Day was celebrated at the Indiana Reformatory In Jeffersonville b the observance of the holiday and by a water-melon feast At the session of the Loard of Trustees recently the parole of fifty-seven inm:ites was authorized out of one hundred examined, by far the largest' list considered or paroled in several years. Twenty-five of the members of the Ruch family gathered at the heme of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Groves In Milford, the occasion being the annual family reunion. Among those who were present to Join in the festivities of the day was Mrs. Catherine Ruch, the oldest member, who is now past S3 years of age. The morning was spent in social conversation and dinner was served at the noon hour. A burglar who evidently knew exactly where the money in John Ervln'g cigar store at Muncie was kept, calmly walked past the cash register without disturbing it and its small amount of change and wer.t to the spot where the tin cash box was hidden. The thief appropriated $110 and departed without eaving a clew. It is estimated that burglars raid pickpockets have obtained $1,000 there In the last three days. Mrs. EU Turnbull, aged 51 years, residing a mile west of Churubusco, died from cancer of the stomach, leaving surviving her the husband and a family of grown children. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Witham and she was held in high esteem in this community. The autopsy performed by Drs. Franks and Briggs disclosed a malignant cancerous affectjon at the pyloric orifice leading from the stomach into the intestines. Robert J. Tracewell, controller of the United States treasury, was the guest of Congressman William O. Barnard, of Newcastle, recently. Congressman Barnard entertained Mr. Tracewell and a party of local politicians at dinner at the Bundy Hotel, after which the Controller was taken about the

city. The business of Mr. Tracewell's visit was not made known. Congressman Barnard w ill go to Chicago In a week to attend a meeting of a congressional committee of which he is a member. Judge Fortune, of the Circuit Court in Terre Haute, gave the new grand jury special Instructions to investigate the facts in connection with the HartSchreck fight pulled off there July 26. He told the jurors t sift the matter and discover if the bout had been a "prize fight," and if so to Indict those connected with It Following the fight Governor Marshall investigated the local situation in regard to fighting and the action of the judge is supposed to be the result of an agreement made at iat time. There will be a further delay in starting the glass bottle factories in Terre Haute because the manufacturers and the union men at a joint conference in Atlantic City failed to reach an agreement . The manufacturers asked for a reduction in wages. Usually the fires are started following the summer idleness, the day after Labor Day. Tne blowers say ithey will remain out for a year unless the old scale of wages is paid. The product of the several factories in Terre Haute is comprised of beer bottles. On Coppock, aged 20, an interested student of wireless telegraphy, has been ambitious to make Tipton a station and with his own apparatus, manufactured at home has erected what he terms an "aerial," high above the treetops, near his dwelling in North Independence street Ho was desirous of getting in touch with the station at Michigan City and this was accomplished so easily that he became enthusiastic and has sent for sensitive instruments, hoping to catch flashes from New York and other cities. Dow Finlayson, aged 30, of Wateska, 111., is at the Howard County Infirmary in Kokomo Buffering from wounds received when he was attacked " in the street by Bert Spurgeon, of Kokomo. Spurgeon attacked Finlayson without cause, it is said, knocked him down, kicked him and then stabbed him twice under the heart. When Fiülayson was picked up it was thought he was dyinf, but he revived enough to be taken 'o the County Infirmary. Ills condition is serious. Spurs eon is in Jail, charged with assault with Intent to kill. He was drinking when he committed the assault Crooks, who took the stolen goods to Chicago in two suitcases, robbed F. C. Hause's dry goods store in Laporte of $12,000 worth of silks aad Attorney M. E., Letter's safe of two gold watches and $100. A serious accident marked the close of the first day of the County Fair at Crown Point, when Nicholas Chefaloo, aged 30 years, a trick bicycle rider, while leaping the gap on a structure fifty feet high, was hurled to the ground. He may not recover. The Incendiary who has been starting a number of fires In Evansville, continues his work, and eight more barns went up In smoke. This makes twenty-seven barns destroyed by fire during the last week, all of mysterious origin. William Parrish Fuller, son of W. W. Fuller, of Boonvllle, has been appointed to a scholarship in Annapolis Naval Academy, of Annapolis, through the efforts of Congressman John W. Boehne, of the First District He was recommended by Dr. T. D. Scales, district chairman, also of that place. Cyrus Plerse and Andrew Plerse, brothers, of Anderson, have gone to New York to investigate their share in an estate valued at $100,000. Andrew Plerse is a carpenter, while Cyrus Pierse is a teamster. Thomas Daggett, while returning to his home in East Germantown. two miles from Cambridge City, was struck by an eastbound interurban car. The acciden: occurred just outside the city limits. Should Daggett live, the physicians say his right leg will have to be amputated at the hip. He is CO years old.

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