Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 15, Plymouth, Marshall County, 13 January 1910 — Page 3

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23 JvfK-S. LOV7f CAKE.'ROJV Inihor cf "In Gras Country," "A Daughter's Heart. A Sister's Sis." "Jack's Secret," Etc., Etc

CHAPTER XX. (Continued.) Ehe hated herself for yielding to the temptation, yet she was unable to resist it. She unfastened the letter easily and slipped it quickly out of its envelope and read as follows: "I have seen the announcement of your engagement, and though I have no right to address you. I am writing to implore you to see me once more. Perhaps you have forgotten me, or perhaps you hate me it would not be wonderful if you did yet if you knetf all. you might forgive, or at least, pity me. for I am the most unhappy man on earth. -I will go to Burlington House tomorrow afternoon and wait there between 3 and C o'clock will you meet me there? I will wait in the second room under Leigh ton's great plctum Look for me there, and speak to me. I Implore you. I am a changed man. You will see at a glance that I am not th Rupert Carroll that you once knew, yet if you can bring yourself to say a few kind words to me for the sake oi the past I entreat you to do so." The letter broke off there there was no ending, and no signature. Agatha s breath came quick and short, her pukes throbbed every nerve In her body tingled. Suddenly she heard her husbands step along the passage. She thrust the letter back into its envelope, fastened it down again, and went quickly to the open window. When Rupert entered, her back was turned to him. and she was busying herself amongst some pots of mignonette and scarlet geraniums that stood on his window-sill, pickin? oft the dead leaves. lie looked a little surprised to find her there; and he threw an anxious glance at his writing-table, but apparently his letter had not been touched. He stamped his letter and put It in his pocket took his hat and stick, wished her a careless good-bye, and went out. For some moments after he had gone, the unhappy young wife remained motionless, where he had left her. She seemed to be stunned with her misery every word of Rupert's letter to this unknown woman whom he loved, seemed to burn itself into her brain. She cast herself down In his empty chair and buried her face In her arms. Then suddenly she sprang to her feet again. The letter by this time was posted, and on Its way they would meet again he would explain the past to her tell her how and why he had forgotten her the story would appeal to her for compassion and for forgiveness she would love him anew and break off her engagement for his sake. -Oh. no! no! she cried aloud, wildly striking her hands passionately together. "It shall not be, they shall not meet, it will be death to all my hopes of ever winning his heart If they do and even this strong tie which Is to bind him and me together in the future will be as nothing to him If he sees this woman and explains everything to her. They must not, shall not meet. But how am I to prevent It? How am I to make her still believe him false and unworthy of her! what can 1 do? I have no friend to help me, I am powerless." She paced wildly about the room. Suddenly a thought flashed through her brain. No friend? yes, she surely had one one who had told her only the other day that to his life's end he would always help her and stand by her. Xetherville would see this woman for her prevent this Interview. -Ah!" she cried, as a sudden Inspira tion came to her. "what a fool I am! Why of course the likeness between them! of course! Why did I not think of it before?" She rang the bell violently and in the reaction of her . delight she laughed aloud. The Victoria at once. I want to go out," she said to the servant. Twenty mlnuthes later the carriage stood at the door. Agatha jumped Into It almost with girlish alacrity. "To Lord Nethervllle's rooms in Victoria street, as fast as you can drive," she said to the coachman. And Miss Carrall only came upstairs from the kitchen Just In time to see her drive away from the door. CHAPTER XXL The afternoon was sultry. There was thunder In the air. but no rain had fallen yet. The ladles, however, in every variety of diaphanous summer toilettes looked anxiously up at the lowering skies, and began to hurry away fron Tord Cricket Ground, where the most popular match of the year was being played. -Can't you take me somewhere and give me some strawberries and cream?" said the petulant, yellow-haired beauty who way hanging on to Lord Nethervllle's arm. "I am afraid not. I have something t must do as I told you before, between' 5 and 6 to-day. I think I thoroughly explained to you. Mrs. Vine," he continued with a little emphasis that bordered on the disagreeable, "that I could only be at your orders until half-past four delighted to have escorted you to the match, but It Is twenty minutes to 5, and I have only time now to put you Into your carriage and to hurry off myself." They were standing outside in the crowded road, looking out for Mrs. Vine's brougham. A small, ragged, and very grimy boy stood close to them. -My eye!" ejaculated the little gutter child when he saw them. He was staling with all his might and main at the well-dressed man close beside him. "Where are you going?" asked MarIon Vine, as Netherville tucked h pale blue skirts into the brougham. -To Burlington House." he said pretty loudly to the cabman, and the hansom, too, drove off. The ragged urchin took to his heels and the middle of the road. There was a crowd, and the carriages moved slowly in file. Very soon he caught up the neat brougl am with the dark-colored liveries. "Gi'e us a bob, lady." said the small, shrill voice, as the rough dark head appeared at the open window. "A "bob indeed!" answered Marion Vine angrily, for she was dreadfully out of temper. "Why on earth should I. I should like to know?" "For tellin' you where the blackfcalred gent is ag-goln to, ma'am wouldn't you like to know?" The grimy paws were clasped on the edge of the window, the cunning little face bobbed up and down as the boy ran. and there was a suspicion of an actual wink in the twinkling eyes. -Just one tob Is the Information and cheap at that." The lady opened her purse and took out half-a-crown, holding it temptingly under Billy's nose. "Where la h going?" she asked.

0 "Burlington 'Ouse where the pictors are kept." The half-crown was dropped Into Billy's expectant palm, and Mrs. Vln altered her orders to her coachman immediately. Billy Watson fell back, chuckling. "That's v-kat comes o' 'aving yer ears hopen and yer heyes awake!" h ejaculated with satisfaction. "Billy, my boy. you wasn't heducated firstclass for nothin'." He turned back. Lord Xetherville's hansom was following Mrs. Vine's brougham a little way off. "Gi'e's a copper, mlord!" he cried, running after It and clinging on to the splashboard at the imminent risk of his life. "Get out, you young blackguard. Why should I give you anything?" "I could tell you soqjthing about them a3 would have settled ye short oft If yr hadn't had luck." "Get off. or I'll call a policeman and give you in charge." "You'd best give them in charge as knocked je on the "cad and left yur for dead under an 'edge and would have had your Jools if ye had had them about yer." "What?" The words arrested his attention. 'What cJo you mean by that, you young beggar?" he asked. "I believe you must be the very boy who disappeared out of Mr.' McGHIup's shop! Do you know that Mr. McGillup has offered a reward for news of you. you youn thief?" "He ain't offered no reward to mo. and I ain't a thief, but If I was properly paid I might tell where ther.i as is thieves, is to b found." "Oho! so you want to turn informer, do you?" "I want to become honest, my lord," answered Billy, with a fervor that was not altogether hypocritical. "I don't want to be mixed up with criminals any longer. If so be as I could see my way to a tidy little sum as "ud "elp me to start in business for myself, why, then I'd break off for ever with them as "as led me astray." Lord NethervlIIe was silent for a minute. He had no particular desire to reward Billy Watson himself, nor did he care about bringing the boy's late accomplices to justice, it was none of his business. But he had a shrewd idea that Rupert Carroll would be very glad to unravel the mystery of the attack which had been made upon him. "Look here, boy." he said, after a short pause, "I can't wait now, and I daresay you won't believe It, but I have nothing to do with the assault your friends committed upon the gen tleman you mention; it was not me at. all. it was another person altogether whom they knocked over." "Oh, go aloag." grinned Billy, disbelievingly, "I know'd It was you. I seed 3ou." "Well, you are wrong as It happens; however, I haven't, time argue It out with you now. .but If you will come to this address my rooms In Victoria street at 9 o'clock this evening, you shall tell your story to a gentleman whom It interests far more than It does me." He gave him his card and . tossed him a shilling. "I knows the address, sir. I'll be there, never fear." But Billy Watson never did go to Victoria street, for reasons which shall hereafter be explained. Xetherville told his cabman to drive on quickly, and soon disappeared down the road. Billy strolled along leisurely, whis tling gaily to himself. His little, clawlike hand well thrust into the. depths of his ragged trousers' pocket, cjutched the two silver -coins with greedy Joy. He had had 'a good afternoon's work already. At this rate he might soon hold up his head in the world again. Billy Watson had fallen very low since he had been made by his tyrants to abscond from Mr. McGillup's shop. He had had a rough time of It blows, and kicks had been his dally portion, and starvation and raggedness had become his normal condition. Billy had begun to wonder if It would not pay him better to turn upon his employers. He was rather afraid of It afraid of calling down their vengeance, '-nd afraid, too, with an in stinctive shrinking, of the police that he had dodged himself so often and so successfully. He bethought him he might be able to "square" things In an amateur fash Ion to his own benefit, much better than by deliberately giving his friends up to Justice. Mr. McGlllup might think it worth while to pay him somethingLord Xetherville. too, might like to have that old affair cleared up for a consideration. If he could only scrape together a few pounds, he would cut and run and set up some where else. He would not have been quite so delighted perhaps had he been aware of the proximity of some of his old friends. "What's ho up to now?" growled Jim, who was lounging at an adjacent street corner, "a' talking to gents in 'ansoms and a' swagerin' as if he was a lord!" "Young 'an requires watching, I expect." rejoined Shuffler. "I tell you what. Jim, that there boy knows too much. He could tell a tale or two. If that boy chose he could get us all clapped Into Jail; he wants watchin. he docs." "Well, I'd watch him now, if I was you." "That's 'zactly what I means to do. You go off and give the tip to the 'Trrquls, and I stops 'ere and keeps heye on Billy for the rest of the l.iy that's what I means to do." Jim went off as he was told. Shuffler followed Billy at a respectful distance, and by-and-by, overcome with an unwciited sense of repletion, Billy went to rleep on the door-step of an c-mpty house, and whilst he slept. Shuffler reclined against a lamp-post Kurd by, and watched over his slumbers with the devotion of a mother. In the second room in the Burlington House, between 5 and 6 o'clock that r.ftornoon. there was played out a :r-.ther curiou3 little Incident. The acrs in the short chapter out of this omedy in human life, appeared upon the scene one after the other. The first to arrive was Lord Xetherville, who planted himself upon a vatont seat exactly opposite Leighfors famous picture. It was the p';ture of the year, about which everybody was talking, but of which he took no more notice than if it had been a signboard. "A precious fool I am!" he thought. "To come here without the slightest idea what I have come for; Just to obey blindly and unreasoningly what she has told me to do. And what is the meaning of it? Xothing, so far as I can make out, save the purposelsss

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caprice of a woman, who doesnt know what she wants herself, I expect! 1 hate doing things like thi3. and putting myself into positions that I don't understand. And yet. I can't help myself! I would do anything in the world for. Agatha! although she Jilted me shamefully. Heigho! It's a mad world, my masters! What possible good can my sitting here do to Agatha? I am to remain here for an hour, she said, dvi.ig nothing! It's the stupidest thing I was ever required to do! However. It was nt much to ask certainly, and after 1 av'ng promised her somewhat grandiloquently to do anything on earth for her always, it was simply impossible to refuse the very first thing she ever asked me to do for her, however childish and trifling the request may seem to be to me! fTallo! what is the meaning of this?" he exclaimed suddenly, looking up towards a lady who was pushing

her way through the crowd3 towards him, with a heated and rather angry face. "Marion Vane, by all that's won derful! How on earth did she know where I was going? She couldn't have followed me: her brougham was well ahead of my hansom. Now this might be awkward for Agitha especially told me I was to be here quite by myself. Why, Mrs. Vine! Where on earth do you spring from?" he inquired aloud, as the golden -haired widow reached him, ;md planted herself down breathlessly on a seat by his side. (To be continued.) FIERCE BEAR FED A CHILD. ihared Food nnd lied wUh a. Boy and Itrfnxed to Harm 111m. About two hundred year3 ago a rich and powerful nobleman named Leopold was Duke of the province of Lorraine, says the Scottish-American. The Duka was fond of animals, and among his 1 savage pets wa3 a great bear named ! Marco. This bear was housed in a rough hut in a corner of his royal master's park. He was supplied with the best of food bv the keener of tho ; animals and on state occasions he was led out by a big choin and made to, dance for the amusement of Duke Leopold's friends. Marco was fierce, cnl when he skiing his shaggy head r.ut of the door of his hut and showed his white teeth In an ugly snarl no one dared to go near him. for one blow of his paw would have knocked a man senseless, and tho-e white teeth of hl3 were very sharp. One cold winter night Marco, hiving swallowed his ?upper in a few gulps, shambled bnck to the furthest corner of his hut ami curled up to sleep. He was Jii3t at the "f.dllng off" point when he heard a sound at his door. He started up, and what should he see but a small boy, hopping first on one foot and then on the other, shivering with cold. The poor child was homeless, had lost his way in the Duke's forest and had run Into the bear's hut for shelter. Marco did not know who thl3 newcomer might be. but he was so surprised that he forgot to growl. Then a strange thing happened. The boy ran over to Marco and peered Into his shaggy face, crying In glee, "Why. you are the Duke's funny bear that I saw dancing the other day. Won't you be my friend? I need you so much." The bear Marco did not understand what the boy said, but he understood the kind hand that stroked his head. That hand meant "I love you." and Marco had never been loved in all his rough, bearish life at least, not since the days before he had been caught in the deep forest, a frightened baby, screaming for his mother. So now a great answering love filled his heart. He allowed the little lad to He down beside h'm. warmed by his furry coat: then together they slept through the night. In the mornin? the boy went away, but cme bark t his new friend in the evening.' Thlj happened for several da?s. Marco shared his food with his visitor and they became great cronies. One day the keeper was rurprlsed to see that Marco left his supper untouched, so. Instead of hurrying away to feed the other animals, he stayed to watch the bear, which sat In the door patiently waiting for his boy. The keeper offered to take away the food, but he received such a fierce look that he set it down again and hid behind a tree to see what would happen next. In a moment, to his horror, a child ran up to the bear, and, when the keeper tried to snatch him out of harm's way the boy threw his arms about his faithful friend and In. a twinkling they finished the waiting supper together. Duke Leopold was brought to the hut to see this wonderful pair and soon the story of the boy and the bear spread throughout the land. Duke Leonold gave orders that the poor child should be brought to his palace to be educated and cared for. Jnat In Time. After suffering a roaring toothache for over a week. Tommy consented to visit the dentist's. "But he'll kill me!" asserted the nervous youngster, on the verge of tears. "I know he'll kill me!" But it was a case of "two evil3." He went with his "nanna," and when he returned, greeted his mother beamingly. "Xot dead?" bantered mamma. "Xo," answered Tommy, "'cos Just before the dentist killed ma the toof come out!" Sold! A tramp was walking down a street selling almanacs. Said he to an old matron: "Will you buy an almanac?" She declined, but the tramp said: "Almanacs are cheap thl3 year, but they will bo dearer next." "Oh," said the matron, "I had better take half a dozen at once!" Painful Memory. "I suppose you often sigh for the scenes of your childhood?" "Yes, I do," answered Mr. Pecksniff, "but when I get to thinking about the old home place the woodshed looms up so vividly that I try to think about something else." Birmingham AgeHerald. Xfw I'xe for (lie Auto. She (in a motor e:ir) What was the matter? He Oh. nothing. She Then why did you stop the machine and crawl under it? He I saw one of my creditor? coming. Boston Transcript. Surer. "How's he getting along with his garden?" "Splendidly. He picked one Umato out of It yesterday." Detroit Free Press. Screws rusted into metal may be loosened by holding their heads redhot irons to expand them. After cooling they can be turned out easily. The eye3 of a chameleon mova Independently of each other.

Woman' Friendship. It is a wondrous advantage to a man, in every pursuit of vocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a suitable delicacy of tact and plain soundness of judgment which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she really is your -friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor and repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing, for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you. At the same time her constitutional timidity makes her more cautious than your male friend. She, therefore, seldom counsels jou to do an Imprudent thing. A man's best female friend Is a wife of good sense and rood heart, whom he loves and who loves him. If he has that he need not seek elsewhere. But supposing the man to be without such a helpmate, female friendship he must still have, or his intellect will be without a garden, ant' there will be many an unheeded gap in even the strongest fence. Detter and safer, ol course, such friendship where disparities of years or circumstances put the Idea of love out of the question. Middle life has rarely this advantage; youth and old age have. We may have female friendships with those much older and those much younger than ourselves. Molier's old housekeeper was a great help to his genius; and Montaigue's philosophy takes both a gentler and loftier character of wisdom from the date In which he find?, in Marie de Gournay, an adopted daughter, "certainly beloved by me," he says, "with more than paternal love, and involved in my solicitude and retirement as cne

of the best parts of my being." Tomale friendship, is, indeed, to man the bulwark, sweetener and ornament of his existence. To his mental culture It is Invaluable; without it, all his knowledge of books will never give him a knowledge of the world. Manford's Mapazine. Ileal?!! for Portiere. Darning Is one of the simplest stitches in embroidery, and some very pleasing results are obtained when this stitch Is us3d as a background. It is quickly and easily done, especially on crash or burlap or any loosely woven fabric. The Byzantine design given here Is to be repeated as a border across the end of a portiere. With a yard-stick or ruler mark off a border six Inches wide, and place the design at regular intervals one Inch up from the lower border line. Transfer the design on the material by means of carbon paper, or, if dark material is used, a white stamping outfit. To do the darning, carry the embroidery silk diagonally across the background of the border like running stitch in sewing with a short stitch on the under side and a longer stitch on the right side. The next row of stitches lies parallel with this, with a narrow space between. The beauty of the work lies In the fact that the stltche3 of one line come LAK-ED WOKK DESIGN. opposite the spaces of the preceding line, and this alternation is carried out with each line added until the space is filled. When the lines and stitches are irregularly placed the effect is exceedingly pleasing. The stitches must end exactly upon the outline of the design. The figure is to be outlined after the darning is completed. Boston Herald. For Soiled Clothing. Brush the garments carefully first, and then apply the liquid with a woolen cloth, going religiously over every spot. This should be done with care, using especial diligence with the soiled spots. After sponging, rinse in ammonia water, and before the garment is thoroughly dried press it between two dark cloths. Soap bark is an effective cleaner of woolen skirts, and men's clothes, as It is a quick eradicator of grease and dirt. Get 5 cents worth of the soap bark, iour it over a quart of boiling water, steep it gently over a fire for two hou3, keeping the heat low, so that the water will not boil away. Then strain through a piece of cheesecloth and it Is ready to use. II Ich i:)klmo Woman. Mary Coonie is the name of the arctic circle Hettty Green, whose wealth is something phenomenal for that part of the world. .She can neither read nor write, but she has so much money that she hires a secretary in the person of an Englishman, a graduate of Oxford. She is a full-blooded Eskimo herself, but has acquired mining claims and has the largest private reindeer herd in the world, 2,000 bearing her brand. She is quite fond of dress, however, In contrast' to Mrs. Green. For the .Nfrvom, Nervous people ought to cultivate the practice of sleeping after the noon meal. A short nap at that time will strengthen the nerves and make it much more liable that the rest of the body will be passed In some sort of comfort. One of the principal difficulties that beset a nervous woman is that she becomes too tired In the latter part of the day to digest food or go to sleep. Thus it is that the evening meal generally disagro with her. Often a short nap in the middle of the day will prevent this. For the Too-Thin Woman. The thin woman with a slender figure should never make a mistake of wearing a tight-fitting princess dress unrelieved by trimming In the front. It makes her look flat chested and too much like a lath to be admired by any one, however partial.

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The same woman appears a totally different creature if she wears a waist made with some fullness in the front. Fluffy white waists are especially becoming to the slender maiden. She is decidedly the type that can stand dressing up. A frock that would make a plump woman look overdressed and fussy will have an entirely different appearance on a thin person. fads ana fancies The army cape and overcoat are fashionable wraps for late fall days. Velveteen is a fashionable and practical material for the long dressy coat. Prune-colored cloth, with long ties and gold ornaments, make a handsome theater cloak. Black still indicates that it means to rule in tailor as well as in afternoon gowns. ' Stripes prevail in the latest French flannels, and some of them are highly effective. Colors are the same in names as last year, but this season they 'are of duller hues. IS very well fitted wardrobe will have a black suit or costume of some sort this season. Some lovely oxidized gold, silver and pevter embroideries are available for tha adornment of reception and evening gowns. There is a new button for outdoor garments made of wood. It is inlaid, stained and polished In beautiful colors and harmonious designs. A curious finish to tailor-made suits for afternoon wear is the lapel of oriental embroidery, with collar of black velvet or moire. New stoles are of chiffon, dged with fur to match the muff. This is the first season that this type of stole has appeared, and It Is expected that it will be fashionable. Jet fringe which Come3 in lengths with Vandyke shapes can be cut to good advantage and used as a bodice trimming, with one or two loose points at the front. Laundering Lnce Curtains. When there are no frames on hand large lace curtains may be pinned on a clean carpet and allowed to dry evenly in this way. Ihirtains that are dried on a clothes line are so pulled out of shape by the process that they can seldom be hung properly. Inexpensive Nottingham and other lace curtains which do not require Ironing, are best dried on frames. Wash them clean and starch them slightly. Pin them on the light wooden frames, which come for this purpose, and on which they may be evenly dried. If they are Ironed they are likely to be pulled out of shape. Xeedlework .Note. A novelty Is the "college robe," which any girl can make. BraldiDg done in colored silk cord is a fancy of the moment. A silk crocheted buckle with a ribbon bow is a novelty in neckwear. Bits of old Japanese embroidery are used to cover buttons for evening capes. Currant3 make an effective bit of color on white linen and are not difficult to embroider. Pin tucks in a Greek key design formed a dainty finish on a child's white muslin party frock. Of all flowers used in embroidery the wild carrot, or Queen Ann's lace, is the most exquisitely dainty. Prefer Husband to Vote. Elinor Glyn and Wvette Guilbert are announced as recent members of antisuffrage associations. Mrs. Glyn has joined an ( English society and Mme. Guilbert has been proposed for membership in an association in this country. Both women are said to have declared their inability to understand why any woman should wish to vote when she has health and a good husband. Girl Meaaenarera Merlin. A girl messenger service ha3 been organized in Berlin designed to supplement the service given by boys. In addition to being hired to deliver letters and packages, the girls are called upon in emergencies to do light housework and to look after children whlla mothers are shopping. Argus. Cleaning Carpet on Floor. To clean a carpet without taking up, take a cup half full of corn meal mixed with salt and sweep well when spots are left; then take oxgall or ammonia. Both are very good thing3 to make the carpet as bright as a new one. To Polish Clnaa. After windows, mirrors, and. In fact, any glass, even cut glass, have been washed, a most beautiful polish can be obtained by rubbing with tissue paper. Save all the tissue paper that comes into the house and use it for this purpose. To Upen wl Can. In case a screw top on a can sticks, strike the cover lightly with the handle of an old knife if there is no tack hammer convenient, while you turn the can. In a few moments the most stubborn cover will open with simply a slight twist. Cheap Disinfectant. A cheap disinfectant to use in scrubbing or washing utensils in a sickroom is made by adding a teaspoonful of turpentine to every bucket of hot water." Turpentine i3 a powerful disinfectant, and will dispel all bad odor3. Itemed)- for Duma. For burns and scalds nothing is so effective as lime water and sweet oil. Take equal parts of each, shake wrll in a bottle, then apply. Old muslin is very good and will not ' draw." Saturate well and tie on. A Woman's Cltlsenslilp. A case without precedent as to nationalization is that of Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch. This daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton- is not an American citizen because she married an Englishman. Now she is' about to

take out naturalization papers. She is president of the New York Quality League for Self-Supporting Women, but she could not vote if women had the franchise. According to the law of nations, a woman Is a citizen of her husband's country. There is no case on record where a married woman has made an attempt to transfer her citizenship. When Skirta Are Lons. There is confusion in the minds of many concerning skirts. There is so much talk about smart gowns being five inches from the floor for evening and nearly six inches for morning that women wonder if there is any hour in which the long, graceful skirt is worn. The strict decree of fashion in New York, says one authority, is this: Skirts five or six inches from the ground for street wear; skirts that sweep over the floor in a round train for the afternoon, and skirts five Inches from the floor for evening. This is the decree! Every one does not have to abide by it, but numbers of women will accept it in part, if not in whole. They may not have every evening gown made short, or every afternoon frock made long, but they will assuredly have one of each kind to show that they know what Is being done in the world of fashion.

Good Thlntf Overdone. The fact that a young woman, 5 feet 1 inch in height, was able to frustrate and almost knock out a 6-foot robber, by hitting him over the head with a purse containing her week's salary, Is an interesting illu5tration of the large improvement that has taken place in recent years, both in the force of woman's muscle and in the size of the woman's salary. It may also, to the wary, seem a warning that some good things may b-3 carried too far. A woman with money has been cne of the legitimate pursuits of aspiring but Impecunious youth since the beginning of time, and it will be sad evidence of the passing of some of the customs of good old days, should the combination, once so attractive, become in the new civilization a thing to be avoided like the hind leg of a mule. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Old-Fafth!onel I'ari. The more quaint and old-fashioned our fur garments are this winter the better, it seems. Early Victorian styles are the fad, promoted by the enthusiam which the play, ''Helena Ritchie," 'EARLY VICTORIAN" FUR CAPE. is arousing, and all sorts of quaint oldtime styles are coming in. This little pelisse -as it would have been called in the days of our grandmothers is of Avhite ermine, bordered all around with sealskin and lined with white brocaded satin finished all around with a little pleated ruffle. The pendant cord ornaments add to the old-fashioned look of the cape and muff. Left-Over Taint. If a can of paint has to be left open, stir it thoroughly, so as to dissolve all of the oil, then fill with water. When it becomes necessary to use the paint pour off the water and you will find it as fresh as when first opened. That Waa Different. "My mistress isn't at home, ma'am," said a servant to a visitor. "Oh, indeed! Will you please tell her that when I saw her peeping from the front window as I came up I felt very much afraid she was?" For 31 nitty Odors. When a musty odor Is perceptible In a room place some charcoal in a dish, or hang it up in a little bag of net or cheesecloth. This will purify the air and absorb ordors. I'oltahlnK Furniture. It is not generally known that wringing out a cloth In hot water, and wiping the furniture before putting on furniture cream, will result In a very high polish, and will not fingt r mark. To ltemove Faint from Glaan. To remove paint from glass wet the window with either cold or warm water and rub a coin over it. A half a dollar would be best, and will remove paint without scratching glass. To Heraove the Odor of Paint. To remove the odor of fresh paint, sprinkle hay with a little chloride of lime and put in a closed room for a few hours. To I. earn to Ilatton. "Why not teach young men in the public schools," says the Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, "how to button five or six small buttons in a minute?" Foiir. All men have follies. Those of the wise man are known only to himself; those of tho fool to all men but himself. Smart Set. Careful Mary. Such sweet, red lips! I stoop to kiss My little neighbor, Mary. "Not on my 'mouf," said four-year-old; Tidn't sanitary!" For Inaomnla. A glass of hot milk taken just before retiring will often Induce sleep for those troubled with insomnia. tillOttta. No man can look for peace so long as any old love letters written by him remain undestroyed. Atchison Globe. To Teach Them to Swim. All the girls in the Boston public schools are to be taught to swim.

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E. G. Hill, a florist of Richmond, has leveloped a rose of chrome yellow coljr. It will not be ready for the market lor some" time, however. Among the beneficiaries under the will of Mrs. Susan Cythora Twombly, Who died December 12, in Boston, and filed in the Surrogate Court, are Mrs. Frances C. Pope, of Portland, Ind., a laughter, and William Hays Foff twombly, a son, also of Portland. Sohn Orr, a contractor of Greenfield, removed his false teeth that he might better enjoy an apple, and laid them on a. paper with the apple parings. In a few minutes h gathered up the paper and put teeth and all into the stove. Before he realized what he had done, bis teeth were destroyed. There was a panic in the public Bclyjol at Charlestown, when an alarm Df fire was sounded. All the children left the building in safety. The blaze was due to a defective flue and was extinguished by volunteer firemen. The building was formerly at courthouse, and is a. brick structure over fifty years old. The damage was nominal. James Pattee, of Connersville, Is ill from blood poisoning, following the removal of a blackhead from his face by als little niece. The child, a few days ago, begged her uncle to let her remove a black speck which was imbedded in the skin. Soon after the blemish had been removed Pat tee's face began swelling. He is now unable to see ind his condition is- serious. As he was about to cast into a stove x paper pouch that had contained "scrap"' chewing tobacco, Horace Anlrim, a liveryman of Portland , felt something hard in one corner. Investigating, he was surprised to bring forth a diamond valued at $75. How the gem happened to be in the package is a mystery that Antrim has not attempted to solve. He expects to have it mounted for his own use. Mrs. Mary Glutz, aged 9S, one of the oldest women in Southern Indiana, died at her borne in Evansville. Death was due to heart disease and senility. Mrs. Glutz was a native of Switzerland, and had lived in Evansville for thirty years. Mrs. Glutz had always boasted that outside of a headache once in a while she had never been sick a day in her life, and that she was never forced to call In a physician. Shi Is survived by one son, one daughter, eight grandchildren and twenty greatgrandchildren. The world's champion ear of corn, the -man who grew it and the $1,000 gold cup he won, will be features of interest at the corn school at will be held in Evansville January 24 to 29. The champion corn grower of the world, as settled by the corn contest held at the Omaha national corn exposition December 16, last, Is John Palin, of Franklin. His single ear of corn won the Kellogg cup, valued at $1,000. Along with Mr. Palin will come his neighbor, L. P. Clore, who for four years prior to 1909 took the world's trophy for the best ear of corn. Col. Isaac Brown, the "Bird and Bee Man," has struck It rich. He recently purchased fifty acres of land near Rochester from Indianapolis residents. In "brushing"' the land it was discovered that there is a peat bed or. it. The State Geologist who examined the find says It is fern peat, and that there Is as much fuel quality in it as if tho peat were that much anthracite coal. Colonel Brown declares that as the peat bed is overgrown with bushes In which hundreds of his little feathered friends nest they will not be disturbed by mining, as the birds are worth more to the community than the peat is to him. "Wanted At the Yendome hotel, a red-headed boy, from 15 to 18 years old." This was the want ad inserted In several of the Evansville papers by the management of the New Vendome hotel there. Manager Johnson of that hotel says he preferred red-heade.d boys around the hotel to any other kind; that one red-headed boy will put ginger in all the rest, and that blond boys pay too much attention to love affairs, while "brunettes are Inclined to be lazy and lack enterprise." Mr. Johnson says if a hotel manager wishes a real bellboy, one who will fill the bill, he should pick some lad with a red head and he will not be disappointed. Professor W. H. Demotte, for sixty years one of the most prominent educators of the deaf and dumb In the United States, died at his home in Indianapolis. He was 80 years old and was born at Harrodsburg, Ky. Professor Demotte was at different periods superintendent of the Wisconsin and the Kansas Institutions for the Deaf and Dumb and for many years was an instructor in the Indiana Institution. He went to Washington as Indiana military agent during the civil war and was In Ford's theater the night President Lincoln was assassinated. Professor Demotte did not often describe the scene in words, but he vividly reproduced it in the sign language and pantcmine for his pupils. E. P. Daniels, an Anderson road contractor, was robbed of a big steam roller whim he used in the construction of the streets in Muncie. The roller was stolen from a vacant lot. It is valued at $2,500. Five couples tripped the light fantastic at double quick time for two hours and 40 minutes in a marthon dance at a dancing academy in Fort Wayne. At the end one of the young ladies fainted, but no ill effects from her experience, are expected. Jackson Baker, aged 80, died at his home in Clay City of general debility. He is survived by his wife and four married children. Mr. Baker was a na tive of Coshocton County, Ohio, and had lived in Owen and Clay Counties for half a century. There are forty cases of measles in Bowling Green and a canvass of the homes shows that seventy-five more persons have been exposed to the disease. Every effort is being made to check the malady. All the cases thus far have been severe, although no fa talities have resulted. The Rev. Father Doling, who has been pastor of the Catholic church at Sullivan, has been sent to Clinton to succeed Father Maher as pastor of the Sacred Heart church, which was dyna mited a few weeks ago. Father Mahler has been transferred to Liberty. The price of brooms is advancing at such a rate that farmers are buying many and storing them for future use. A broom that formerly sold for 25c Is marked a half dollar now. One farm er near Owensville gave his wife a dozen brooms for a Christmas gift. He paid 50 cents for each broom.

D. B. Davis, of Peru, was fatally Injured by an explosion of a moving picture machine gas tank. Dr. Sol. C. Dickey has resigned as president of the Winona Technical In

stitute of Indianapolis. He was one of its founders. The sum of $7,730 damages for injuries reoeived at the West Washington street car barn In Indianapolis a year ago, has been awarded to Joseph Andrews, formerly a motorman. .The Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Ox was defendant in the case. C. B. Smith, president of the First National Bank of Owensville, used an incandescent light for a foot warmer when he retired, with the result that the bed covering was set on fire. Smith was soon aware of the blaze and extinguished It without difficulty. J. T. Foster, a fur buyer of Vincennes, has received from St. Francisville, 111., ten miles below Vincennes, the skin of a black raccoon, an animal almost extinct in the vicinity. This Is the second pelt of this kind Foster has been able to purchase iu twenty years. He paid John Barnett $3.75 for the hide. The Crands.ll farm, three miles north of Newcastle, owned by Charles D. Möhler, county commissioner, has been sold to James Ginn, a Hendricks County man. It consists of 1C0 acres and the price was $20.000. which is regarded as a high price. The Lee Hudelson eighty-acre farm, along the National road, nea: Dunreith, wa sold to Fred E. Hudelson for $12,000. At the tenth annual reunion of the Association of Survivors of the Battle of Stone River, recently he'd in Terre Haute, tho following officers were elected, and it was decided to meet in Princeton, Ind., next year: President, ' Samuel F. Wilson, Neoga, III.; Vice President, J. K. Henby, Greenfield, Ind.; secretary, W. H. Dryden, Martinsville. Ind.; Assistant Secretary, Henry Wylie, Paris, Ind. The Rev. W. M. Nelson, pastor of the Grace Methodist church, a prominent member of the Northern Indiana Conference, has been released from service by his congregation In Richmond in order that he may be transferred to Cheyenne, Wyo. The Rev. Mr. Nelson recently asked to be permitted to leave and the congregation granted the request. The Rev. Charles Cates, of Cheyenne, is to come to Richmond. Presence of mind on the part of Matron Gressell, of the Orphans' Home In Petersburg prevented a panic when fire broke out in tho home.v The kitchen stove exploded while Matron Gressell was preparing breakfast for the forty-five children in the home. The stove lids were driven through the ceiling and the building was set afire. Fearing a panic, the matron did not call the fire department. She sent some of her assistants upstairs to quiet the children while she directed others in fighting the fii c with buckets. The fire was put out and no one was hurt. Charles W. Kleckner, who represent ed Ctss County In the Indiana Legislature In 1907 and 1909, has been ap pointed sexton of ML Hope cemetery by David D. Fickle, who succeeded George P. McKee as mayor of the city of Logansport. Kleckner is a hod car rier by trade, and when in the Legis lature took much pride in his vocation. He could have been returned to the Legislature had he so desired, but be decided that a good, steady four years job under the city government Is bet ter than sixty days in the legislature every two years. He begins his new duties immediately. A few minutes after the new year was ushered in a baby was born at the home of John Hando, near Carmlchaels, Green County, Pa. At midnight on New Year's eve, 1908, Hando was married near Laporte, Ind. A cousin in jest offered to wager the new bridegroom that he would not be a father Inside of twelve months. This wager was accepted. Later the Handos went east to live. The husband and father holds that It was only 11:03 in Indiana when the child was born In Pennsylvania and that he won his wager by fifty-live minutes. The Indiana cousin declines to take this view and demands the money, claiming Hando lost the bet by five minutes. The Vincennes Water Supply Company, with oldces at Philadelphia, has given Vincennes the Harrison mansion, with the privilege of keeping It or. its present site until such time as the water works company needs the ground to' make extensions of Its plant. The management of the company in a letter addressed to the Board of Public Works commends the patriotic spirit of the citizens of Vincennes in wishing to perpetuate the house. The homestead is of brick with black walnut finishings, and was built by William Henry Harrison, the first gov ernor of the northwest territory. Efforts were made some time ago to get the Legislature to pmvhase the house. Sheriff Demarce found the bars of a second-floor window in the Madison jail sawed through and all preparations made for the escape of Jesse Stonehouse and Russell Eppinger, white, and William Swift, colored. 'Scantily clothed and suffering from hunger and exposure Marshall McMurren, aged CO years, was found in his hut a few miles below Evansville by Deputy Sheriff Albert Heberer. Heberer found $22.000 in cash on the man's person. The farm recently purchased by the Evansville Anti-Tuberculosis Society with the $3,000 siven it by Congressman John W. Boehne has been named the Boehne farm in honor of the representative in Congress from the First Indiana district. Frank Flora has just completed what is thought to be the State record for corn husking, on the farm of Clarence Tansy, west of Flora. Flora worked for nineteen days, and husked and cribbed two thousand bushels of corn, for which he received 5 cent3 a bushel, making for his work $C0. Silas Anson, aged 40 years, employed as engineer in the plant of the Evansville Furniture Company, was killed bj being struck by a flying piston rod. Ilia wife'3 first husband was killed In 8 similar manner several years ago. Melvin Myers, a famer near Nash ville, met with a peculiar "accident which nearly cost him his life. He wai driving a wild horse when the horse became frightened at a covey of qualli flying past and ran away. Mr. Myers was thrown from the buggy, but held on to the lines and was dragged for a quarter of a mile through the snow.