Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 25, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 March 1910 — Page 3

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The Quest of

ESeUly By MACDA

Copyrlslt, 1339, ty W. G. Chapmaa. Copyright In Great Britain

CTIAPTER IX. (Continued.) Che visit of Mr. Franz threw no new light on the Wayne murder mystery. As to the disappearance of Betty Lancey and of the Man-Aperilla these riddles were still at their baffling Inception. The police found themselves up against a polygonal enigma: The murder of Cerisse Wayne; the Identity, and whereabouts of Hamley Hackleye; the unparalleled resemblance between Mrs. Harcourt and Mrs. "Wayne; the disappearance of Betty Lancey; and the appearance and disappearance of the Man-Aperilla all surrounding the death of Mrs. Wayne. Larry Morris grew thin and gaunt as the days passed on, and no tidings came from the mlsslnsr Betty. Harcourt's wife had been taken to a sanitarium and Harcourt was held in jail pending her recovery and the clearance of the mystery. The copy of the letter Harcourt had made was pronounced by experts to be a disguised hand, and the signature of Harold Harcourt on the hotel register was found to be almost identical with the formation of the initials H. H. appended to the letters found among the effects of the dead Cerisse Wayne. Opinion was divided among 'various peculations and some thought that Harcourt had killed Mrs. Wayne, other theorists held that Harold Harcourt and Hamley Hackleye wer the same; others still, that Harcourt had been masquerading as Hackleye, and In that way explained the vanishing of Hackleye. This left still unaccounted for the abduction of Betty and the mystery of the Man-Aperilla. Larry Morris persistently held to It that It was only right that an expedition should be fitted up and sent to Africa to see if there might be any further clews picked up there. His . paper laughed at him. and one editor, who guessed the condition of Larry's heart, called him a -lovesick fool." Larry fumed until one night late in August he had a dream about Betty. He saw her In a Jungle, amidst a horde of llbyans and hideous black men! And she was standing there stretching out her hands to him. Her voice, thick with pain, called out to him, "Larry! Oh. Larry!" That settled Larry Morris. He threw up his Job the very next day, and with Johnny Johnson in tow left for New York. ( Five days later Larry had made a tie-up with a press syndicate to go to Africa, along with Johnny Johnson, and see what could be done towards tracing out that end of the tale. They had no charts, nothing but a few half obliterated postmarks torn from letters found in the safety deposit box kept with Doubleday. Franz & Co., but on these Larry was pinning much faith. It was the mustard seed he hoped would move a mountain. CHAPTER X. Betty Lancey came back to consciousness and the world of things as mortals think they see them, with a most monstrous smell of sulphur choking her. As nearly as she could distinguish the room was filled with glass globes the circumference of a fairslzed musk-melon, and every globe was a-twltter with lemon yellow or pale violet lights, bathing the room with odd sputtered flashes. Realities reverted slowly. Betty made out a ceiling, domelike and corrugated, later a floor, and eventually descried that she was nestling on a couch piled soft and easy with pun gent pillows. Barely had she discern ed these facts when a swaddled per onage confronted her. It was tall and garbed In sombre swatchlngs that left the outlines of Its great bulk all In doubt. "Ah. that is better," came the gut ural comment, "do you wish more medicine T "No, indeed." she expostulated. "I didn't wish any in the first place. Why did you give It to me? Where am I?" The being answered with a shrug. "Pray, calm yourself, my dear Miss Lancey. I only trust the rnachlna tlons of this electrical apparatus will not disturb you too much. Do be quiet! Do not excite yourself unduly." "Oh. but who are you? Where am I? And why? asked Betty. "There's such a rushing in my head, such a sounding in my ears, and that swish and swash of water what does it all mean? Am I delirious or dreaming?" "Tou've been both," replied the fig ure. "but you're better now. Well enough to go irtto the salon where "you can rest far more comfortably than in here. As to who I am well, you may call me Le MalheuJteux if you 1U u suits me better than any other title, for I am the unhapplest in all the world! My baptismal name was Fran -eis Francis the free but freedom for me never!" The figure sunk in a heap, .bove the sputterings of the electrical ap paratuses Betty could distinguish the swirl of waves, and the surge of deep water. She tried to rise but was too weak, and reclined once more upon her pillows. Vainly she endeavored to recall what had passed before. Event after event raced through her brain She remembered dimly as a child traces back the progress of an evil dream the Incidents of her last waking hours. Thi inquest of Cerisse Wayne, the scene 1a the Directory Hotel, the quest for t'je papers, her attempt to Interview tne mysterious woman, and last of all that shuddering fright, that fearful, struggling embrace with horrible furry being that held her in a grasp from which escape was impossl ble, endurance intolerable. She glanced at the heap of draperies by the side of the couch, watched the swing and sway of the room about her, and tried to gather her tortured senses together. Betty Lancey had never had any Imagination, but she was possessed always with the. poise of six men and the common sense of a dozen. She ex amined her hands carefully, and found them without scratch or bruise. She felt no soreness of body but a numl heaviness of brain, and a confused medley of thought. She closed her eye3 and again dropped into .1 numbness. She awakened from dream3 of a meal at Le Roy's with Larry Morris urging her to "have just another piece of this steak. Betty, do." By her side was a small table, neat Iy spread with dainty linen, fragile china, and exquisite silver, laden with a dozen appetizing Iand3. A negro woman of hulking build was gently bathing her temples. "That'3 right, child." said the black woman, "open your eyes and you'll feel better. Open your lips, too, and tste this broth. It's so nice! I made it for you. Just the way Mr. Francis likes It He says it is the nicest he ever ate." Mention of "Mr. Francis" fetched to mind the shock of an earlier hour to Betty. She suffered herself to be fed which the negress did as gently as a

Lancey F. WEST mother might With reviving strength Betty found her tongue again. She questioned her servitor closely. "Have I been sick or drugged?" "You've been very sick, my girl. But this sea voyage will put you right again. When you get back from Africa, you'll " "From Africa?" shrieked Betty. "Oh where and why and how am I going there? Oh. what has happened to me?" "You're sailing straight for Africa In the most comfortable manner possible," answered the negress, "but as I tell you. you'll be sent home well and safe." Betty sank back quieted and dutifully ate for the negress. When she had finished the black woman went away and came back with steamer rugs and wrappings. "My name Is Tyoga," announced the negress, bluntly. Then she set about combing Betty's sadly tangled hair. and wound the braids loosely around her fevered head. "I'm going to take you up on deck, new. Mr. Francis says you need the air." Tall and strong as Betty once had been the giant negress picked her up as If she had been a little girl, and bore her to the upper deck and placed her in a luxuriously arranged steamer chair. The glare of the sun on the water hurt Betty's eyes terribly, but the salt breeze refreshed her and the relief from the smell of sulphur and the sputterings of the electrical flashes was unbounded. The surface of the water was unwrinkled and sea and sky were Joined without a visible seam at the Juncture. The craft on which she was sailing was the oddest Betty had ever seen. Not larger than a comfortable yacht, it was devoid of rigging, machinery, or even sailors so far as the casual eye could note. All around pervaded that uncanny silence born of the dearth of human companionship. Tyoga pushed a little table covered with books close to Betty's side, tucked her round with the blankets, and handed her a little bell. "I shall be busy below," announced the negress, "but if you want me, ring." Then she disappeared down a hatch way. Betty picked up the magazines listlessly and found in addition sever al current scientific Journals in French and in German, numerous of the light er American and English periodicals. and a San Franscisco dally of a date several days prior to the murder of Cerisse Wayne. The yacht, for such Betty termed it in the absence of any more accurate knowledge of the nature of the craft, made good time through the water. Its soft motion, and the glare of the sun, sea and sky acted as a gentle hypnotic and Betty, with a few final efforts for the retention of consciousness found herself slipping into a dream of wild unrest. Once It seemed to . her that the Malheureus stood beside her, and then again Tyoga she had hard shift to differentiate between them, both were so tall, so hulking, so sombre. Had she not heard their voices in a guttural converse whose syllables she could not distinguish, she would have thought that the dual personality was but a trick of her rebellious fancy and that only one person beside herself was aboard this yacht of enchantment or delirium. The golden day faded in a rainbow clash of scarlet and silver, Jasper and Jade, pink and purple and gold and green. Pale evening, star-shot and misty followed In Its footsteps. At Intervals Betty roused to be fed, only to fall again into her dreams of things chaotic and things incomplete. Then when it grew the dark gray dusk, with a tight and shrivelled little quarter of a moon above them, Betty heard the twang and tinkle of a lanjo besld her, and looking saw Le Malheureux. deep In the shadow, picking from the strings of the Instrument melodies with , all the heartbreak and all the soul-ache of the world within their measures. As the night darkened the music grew more weird and from the hatchway Joined In Tyoga's voice, deep, rich, alluring as the Jungles from whence she had come, and the yacht sailed on and on to the south, with Betty fast asleep and all unconscious of the world-wide search for her, now paralleling the mystery of the murder of Cerisse Wayne. CHAPTER XI. One day Betty, tired of watching the seascope slip monotonously by, sampled putting her foot to the deck. The touch of the timber wakened ambition within her, so the second foot slowly followed the first Then Betty mada another try, and found that she could stand erect rather tottery, it was true. Then she tried to walk, but hardly had she gone half a dozen steps when Tyoga was with her. "Careful, careful," smiled the negress. "Don't try too much, and be careful, mighty careful 'round this boat This is a bad boat, Missy, It ought to fly the pirate flag." Betty shivered. She' had grown to like Tyoga, for the negress had been devotion Itself In the services she had given to the young American girl. Taciturn and commanding, Betty had never , been able to evoke from her either the 'object or the direction of their Journey beyend what the negress had told her that first morning. That she had been very 111, Betty knew, and that Le Malheureux was a physician of high skill she had shrewdly guessed. Betty rarely saw him, never In a bright light, though when he played on deck of nights, as ha always did, the .masic. mystery and misery in the music mado her heart throb and her eyes fill with tears. It was the wail of a heart and of a soul In prison, and In despair. All endeavors to elicit any Information from her surroundings having failed. Betty had resigned herself to the inevitable, postponed thi finding of the answer and estimating her own enfeebled condition had got down to taking things as she found th m. reveling in the salt and sweep of Nature and the sea-air and the willy-nilly voyage that had fall?n to her lot. Time and its reckoning had all been lost. Betty, finding that the comptometer of tlio days had slipped from her mind did not try to retain it She merely rested and waited. But there were times, occasions and remarks that Tyoga and Le Malheureux both would ofttimea mako that caused Betty to shiver, and forced her once more into a wonderment of the wherefore and the why. "Don't. Tyoga!" she fretted now. "You make me so unhappy when you speak like that I'm restless, anyway, and I want to bo amused. Take me some place!" "Do you want to go into my kitchen." suggested Tyoga, humoring her. "Most little girls like to mess In the

kitchen. If you want to you may g j down and make fudge." '

Tyoga." asked Betty, "where did J you get that wonderful education of yours? Tell me. do. Your English is perfection!" ( A shade of pain crossed the negress' face, and her features set in immobility. "Do you want to go into the kitchen?" she repeated. "No," replied Betty, imperiously, "I want to go see Le Malheureux. I don't like him, Tyoga, he repels me as much as if he were a horrid beast. But I feel sorry for him. Take me where he is." (To be continued.) BUSES Or SUFFR A.OISTS. t TJUttuIse Adopted 0 Attend a Liberal .Meeting? In Londou. The precautions taken to exclude suffragists from the Liberal meeting at the Albert Hall recently were effectual, the London Daily Graphic Bays. Two of three men who raised the cry of "Votes for women!" were unceremoniously thrown out. A disguised suffragette attempted to get In. She came in the uniform of a telegraph boy. But a lynx-eyed male saw by the way her peak cap was poised that the telegraph "boy" wa3 only a young woman in disguise. Realizing that she was recognized, the disguised one ran down the steps of the hall amid mingled cheers and jeers and drove away In a four wheeler. It was fully expected that at the end of Thursday's suffragette meeting 'In the hall some women would attempt to remain on the premises in readiness to disturb the Liberal demonstration. The reason for anticipating this was that a woman was discovered about 5 o'clock on that afternoon that is, prior to the suffragettes own display hidden In the organ. Many women had been admitted during the afternoon, and she and the others who hid themselves In the hall were supposed to be of the number who then entered. She reached her position In the organ at considerable risk, for elaborate structural precaution had already been taken in view of a recent meeting to prevent any one from approaching the organ. Failure on the part of the woman to accomplish the feat in safety would have meant a drop of twenty feet Into the seats of the orchestra. She came out voluntarily when discovered otherwise there was no room for a man to get in to force her out. This one having been found In the organ loft, the watchman proceeded to search the whole building after the women's meeting was over. He found two in a small corridor between the band room and the platform and one in a pay box at the entrance. The suffragettes allege that they followed the man round covertly. Some hours later about 5 o'clock one mornteg the watchman found another woman' in one of the boxes, hidden behind the curtains. He telephoned to the police to know what to do with her. They told him to let her go, and she was turned out, as the others had been. Or rather she would have been turned out, but on returning to the waiting room where he had put her the man found she had escaped through a window. Still another woman wa? found in a dark portion of the building, the credit for the discovery in this case being due to the dog which accompanies the man on his rounds. When taken out of their hiding places the women presented a sorry sight, being covered with dirt and dust. Some had bags of food. Recently the manager of the hall, with a large staff of assistants, went over the huge building thoroughly, right up to the crown of the roof. Nobody was found, but special men were placed on the doors leading to the roof In order to prevent any v unauthorized person from ascending. During the afternoon the stewards engaged for the Liberal meeting arrived, and before that the management had made another tour of the lower part of the building especially under the stalls in the area and the balcony, where any number of women could hide and make themselves heard throughout the hall by a megaphone. It seems the women had offered as much as 200 for a seat at one night's meeting. ' Too Ileullstlc. A schoolmaster looked anxious and worried. -What's the matter?" asked the vicar. "I'm worried about the boys in the upper classes, sir. I've been teaching them how to revive the apparently drowned." "Well, that should not worry you," replied the good vicar. "Yes, sir; but I have caught some of the boys trying to drown one another in order to practice what I have taught them!" From Pittsburg:"Young gentlemen," announced the professor in English literature, "tomorrow I wish you to come prepared to discuss this sentence from the works of Henry James." "The entire sentence, professor?" groaned the class. 'Well, take it as far as the first serai colon." Pittsburg Poit. Definition of Tuet. Mrs. Pyne Mrs. Blank certainly possesses "tact." Xt3. Hyne What is your definition of tact? Mrs. Pyne That Is a woman's ability to make her husband believe ha is having his own way. Llpplncott's. At the Jteeeptlon. "Me no speakee Chinese velly well." explained the hostess on welcoming the distinguished visitor from the Flowery Kingdom. "No matter," responded the latter. "I can converse in English." Kansas City Journal. "Willi AVlle and SinlK. Maud There's no use trying your arts on Jack. He i3 wedded to hU profession. Ethel (archly) Oh, I don't know. I think I could make him commit bigamy. Boston Transcript. IliiHlneiii 1 Ilnlii. Count (to the matrimonial agentOne other point. I am living out nt the country; my intended must bo shipped to nie. Are your teraas f. o. b. or do you pay the freight? Fliegende Blatter. Tiiolful Tflle. Miss Saphron Do you sell anything to restore the complexion? Chemist Restore! You mean preserve, miss. (Deal to the amount of iTs Gd immediately executed.) London Tatler. Far away Portland, Ore., was the birthplace of Blanche Dates.

Great Chance In Women. "I had rather be a successful wo man than an unsuccessful lady," says a prominent woman. This statement makes some of us sit up who have been jogging along without realizing the incompatibility of attaining suc cess and remaining a lady. Before con sidering the matter we really should define terms, except that no one has ever been able to state just exactly what a lady is. Success is the chief desire of life. Time was when a woman attained the greatest success possible to her merely by being a lady. She was admired, she married well, she became a social leader, and the highest compliment had been passed when it wa said, "She Is always a lady." Men changed because business methods changed. And one of the greatest factors in this change was the fact that the success ful men were not as a rule gentlemen. To compete with them, the gentlemen had to change their tactics. Then women went into business, and there they found that the things which had been the hallmarks of the lady were excess baggage. , A low, timid voice, a lack of self-assertlve-ness, a touching dependence upon the nearest masculine representative, an aloofness from the material things of life, easily shocked sensibilities, an overplus of sentiment, an unwillingness to do anything that would make her in the least conspicuous, a woman found did not raise her wages or advance her position in the working force. Besides, she found ' that the men she was brought into contact with no longer admired the qualities to which they had formerly written sonnets and dashed off Byronic prose. The question naturally suggests itr self to our speculative minds, that since people range themselves In grades, what will be the highest type of the present feminine members of society? What will be the adjective to couple with woman to express the most admirable mixture of qualities in her? As for women themselves, they can comfort themselves in this transition state, while unanchored by the Ideal of being a lad3', and not yet supplied with another guiding star, with the reflection that very few famous wo men have been ladies. As we look back, a lady meant a person with so many negations and inhibitions that she was pretty much hobbled when it came to accomplishing anything mo mentous. The men also will have to give thought to the problem that they must get out and hustle to hold their own with the woman who has discarded the out-of-date garment of perfect ladyship. Ilnlr Supporters. Among the numerous artifices used by women who are short on hair and few women have enough to carry out the coiffures foisted on them by the hairdressers in the past few years the supporter designed by a Washington woman and shown herewith Is one of the most efficient. A wire frame has a cres-cent-shaped turn 1 top and a projecting support at the back, both covered with false hair, like the regulation "rat," or holding a fine wire screen. The two are joined by two wires, U-shaped. This supporter is placed on the head when the hair is down, and when the hair is done upi the pads underneath give it the appearance of being much more abundant than it really is. To Clean Linoleum. Floor covering of good lineleum for the kitchen should hold its own for at least five years. The way to prolong its period of usefulness Is to keep it clean; dirt ground Into the finished surface by the tread o! feet is the floor covering's greatest enemy. Linoleum needs no . soap, ammonia or strong cleaning agents. A simple wiping with a cloth just moist with warm water is all that is needed. In one country home skimmed milk mixed with the water was used, but the owner had a herd of thirty cows. Once or twice a year give the linoleum a wiping with good furniture polish to renew Its smooth surface. Mr. Longworlh'a Gowns. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth la again onong the leaders of fashion In the national capital, and her gowes are the models of her contemporaries. She wears the draped garment entirely, and she is fond of tissues and of the knitted silk effects. These gowns are among the most expensive things of the season. Mrs. LongwoTth's knitted draperies and waists always are covered with gold or silver beads. She has selected yellow for this season, and all her gowns are of various shades of this color. The Sweet Tuen of Advemlty. You can wear your old clothes. You are not troubled with visitors. You are not persecuted to stand sponsor. Begging letter writers will let you alone. Imposters know it is useless to try and bleed you. You can practice temperance. You are not foolishly flattered. You save many a debt, and many a headache. Finally, if you have a true friend, you'll find it out. Life. .Making an Iron Inj; Ilonrtl. It is claimed a splendid ironing board cover is made by tacking burlap to the board and then covering it with a double thickness of old white flannel. This makes a firm, smoth covering which never wrinkles like the blanket covering. To Mnve Mep.n When St-uinur. Fill a small cushion inchc? square with sawdust or bran and sew two short pieces of tape at opposit" corners. Tie this on the sewing machine midway between spool holder and hand wheel and when you ueel a pin you have It right before you. 'thaulecler' Stylo. Various are the sovrces of women's fashion?, moralizes the New Yoik World. A princess wears a high collar to conceal a scar, and all the feminine world adopts it. The headdress of peasant girls is utilized to form the "peach basket" hat of recent Vogue. The army blouse of an Italian liberator was cnodified to make a gar-

ment for women's wear. Empresses

and actresses stamp their individuality on a style of skirt or of hairdressing. But is a poet to lead them all as an originator of fashions? The outburst of "Chantecler" hats, wraps, toques, etc., 13 one of the singular consequences of the wide interest In the Rostand barnyard drama. There are cnantecler" hats ornamented with black roosters bearing red combs, Lhantecler" toques trimmed with golden pheasants, "Chantecler" opera cloaks, stockings, buttons, buckles and wnat not. There are "Chantecler" clocks and napkin rings. The craze nas come as suddenly as the revived Directtoire styles, and with the nromise that it will probably pass as quickly. iet in the cninor articles of feminine adornment, in the crests, cockades, plumage and feathery ornament, its influence is likely to be felt longer. Electrin Dread Baking. Electric bakine ovens have Inn? hMn available, but their use has not spread very rapidly, probably because of the cost or the difficulty of procuring the requisite current. In the little Swiss town of Kerns, where electric nowpr is cheap, the electric baking oven has just been established in a satisfactory manner. In a furnace less than eieht feet long, one hundred pounds of bread. In loaves of one and three pounds each, can be baked at one time. and eight bakings can be made in twelve hours. The cost of the heating Is a little more than 1 cents a pound of bread. Youth's Companion. An Injustice to Women. Who will say that women aro afraid? Who will venture to call them the "weaker sex?" The true modern woman fears no peril. We already know that she like all women, at all times could endure even the most exSOME CHANGES

There is to be a radical change in sleeves. But the old one3 can be remodeled and built to look like new which is always welcome news to those who have good waists left over from last year. Plain tailored leg o mutton sleeves with buttons to thv? elbow are the favorites, for tailored dresses. For dress-up wear, the elbow sleeve, with three-quarter length undersleeve of mull or moussellne will be most popular. A pretty gray plaid French gingham dress shown recently in a fashionable shop' has rather full sleeves aith deep cuff piped with plain gray. This design is said to be one of the prettiest sleeves of the season. Elbow sleeves, mosuquetaire sleeves shirred from shoulder to knuckles, sleeves with elbow tucks to form a fullness at that point, and those with fullness tucked at the shoulder and wrist are all good.

cruciatlng pain with admirable fortitude, and, generally speaking, much better than the average man. And yet, in spite of these facts, there are men who will deny that fearlessness, as they deny that fortitude. There still exists and there will probably always exist the type of husband, for Instance, who tell3 his wife, after she has already gone through some terrible physical agony: "Well done, little woman; you bore it like a man!" Philadelphia Ledger. To Look Taller. Here are hints for the woman who would be a little taller: Avoid glrdle3. Never under any circumstances wear a belt of contrasting color. You can think It gives a smart color note, but you are wrong. Let all your lines run up and down. Do not wear a yoke of the square variety; it shortens you. Have your gown all of one material, preferably a light tone. . Wear long gloves and carry a tall umbrella. Hold your chin up to lengthen your throat line. Carry your head straight, never tilted to one side. The tilted head is for the tall woman, who wants to look short. Hoaae Work Will Do Tfcl. Sweeping, properly done, will keep the waist round and trim, the figure straight and youthful and the chest full. I Washing windows will develop the chest and throat. Climbing to the top of the stepladder will make the ankle slender and graceful. Using both arms correctly when ironing will round them and give them the needed fashionable plumpness. So, you see, housework has its good points, after all. Philadelphia Record. Shoe and Pumps. The low cut footgear -shortly to replace the high topped boots of winter are of most attractive shape. An exceedingly comfortable walking shoe w hich comes Id black as well as in various shades of brown and tan goat or kid, has a center seamed vamp above which Is a four-button band, crossing and supporting the instep. On somewhat similar lines are ankle-strap shoes which promise foot comfort In

warm weather, and In the narrow toed shape are very smart looking shoes with double straps crossing the instep and fastening under tassels. Cravanette, suede and fine kid pumps of various fashionable shades are perforated or stitch-bordered and ornamented with large oblong buckles or small fiat ribbon bows.

llcnlth and Ilenutj-. A poultice of salt mixed with the white of an egg makes a pewerful drawing poultice for a felon. As a drink for sore throat Pour half a pint of boiling water on one tablespoonful of black currant jam. Strain when cold. Give freely. To brighten the eyes take occasionally just before going to' bed, the juice of half a lemon in a small tumbler of water, without adding any sugar to it. For coughs and hiccoughs salt in small quantities often allays these distressing afflictions. Taken in pinches before retiring will remove tickling in the throat and conduce to sleep. After the nightly bath is best time for massage. The pores of the skin have been cleansed and opened and the effect of either skin food or cold cream used then seems little less than magical. When a person Is hurt, to prevent swelling and discoloration apply butter iraediately, and bind on a piece of brown paper. This is excellent where there are children, as the remedy is always near at hand. $52s andjahaey Chantilly lace is once more in fashion. Quaint is a bag of white suede in a raised pattern of a swan outlined in brilliants. The English custom of wearing the watch in a gold bracelet has made a hit, both with the women of Paris and America. The Russian turban, in heavy fur or IN SLEEVES. velvet, is one of the leading styles and it is consistent with the rage for Rus sian fashions generally. Sleeves fulled into the armholes'and gathered below the elbow into deep cuffs are seen in some ultra-fashion able afternoon gowns. Enamel buckles, oblong or oval shape, in Louis XIV. design, are to be worn with linen suits. They are made In all colors and in silver and gold. In cottons, plaids promise exceedingly well from the start They are two toned and are shown in all grades. They will make up nicely with Suisse Satin bands are used as a finish c many of the handsome evening scarfs. There is, of course, no lack of spangles, whether in the shape of sequins or bugles. Bows of tulle and brilliant buckle3 and long narrow severely plain bows or moire ribbon are considered quite the proper thing for tailored shirt waists. With black costumes there are straight garnitures of embroidered net that cover the front of the waist and then fall straight in panel or stole ef feet down the front of the gown. As a happy medium between the high waist line of the directoire pe riod and the low lino Of the moyen age, the girdle, more attractive than ever, has been placed on many of the newest gowns. She Wa a. CI tr Bride. She had only just been married. She had been shopping for the first time, and had made one or two mistakes. Presently she approached a poultry dealer and asked the price of chickens. She was told by the dealer, who hand ed her a pair of live birds to examine She quieted their fluttering as best she could, and then, applying her dainty nostrils to them, said in the most innocent manner: "Are you sure they are quite fresh?" Suburban Life. xw 'si eeves. They may be quite long. The bishop sleeve, with Its full top and deep; cuff, Is also noticed. Or the tailored sleeve, tight to the elbow, with tight lace tindersleeve. And the cloth sleeve with chiffon puff at the elbow. Then there is the tight shoulder sleeve with full drapery below it. Some of the tailored sleeves on coats have turn-back cuffs. raateurlzliis Milk. Place a pan of cold water on the stove and put a vessel containing ih? .milk in the pan. As soon as the water begins to boil. take it off. Add a small teaspoon ful of soda to each qu?-t of hot milk. Put the milk In a bottle and put In a cork. Milk treated In this way will keep sweet in hot weather for twenty-four hours. Oppoved to Iurly Mnrrlagre. A woman died in Vienna recently who left $200,000 to her three nephews with the understanding that any one of them who married before the age of 40 was to forfeit his share. Three nieces who also were mentioned in the will were not to marry before 2Q. L'nappreeiative. A woman will teil yqu she dresses to please her husband, even though he swears every time she buys a new dress. Smart Set. Hepoliite! Machine A'eedle. When sewing machine needles be came blunted, rub them across a whet stone, which repoints as good as new,

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! iti iti if ft it t 1 I V V w w i 4As a result of the extreme hard win ter, the fruit in Lawrence County has suffered severely. George Vantyle, assessor of Perry Township, says that In his township all the tender fruits are killed. Reports from other townships are of about the same nature. The ap ple crop is said to promise well. The prompt action of Harley East, a farmer living several miles east of Bed ford, on the Southern Indiana railroad, prevented a serious wreck when he flagged a north-bound passenger train within a few feet of a string of runaway freight cars that broke loose on a grade in Bedford. None was injured. Residents of Hope are excited over a large eagle which made its appearance in that locality over a week ago. The bird Visited thf. nrmltrv vaH rf IT H Wooley, a farmer, and carried off a goose. Atterwara it was seen by William Holloway in a graveyard. The bird is said to measure seven feet from tip to tip. Three Lake County pioneers, who re sided in that locality when Chicago was Ft. Dearborn, died within a few minutes of each other at Crown Point recently Mrs. E. H. Taylor, aged 84; Milo Bürge, aged 80, and Mrs. Mary Hartman, aged 70, are the decedents. All were schoolmates together. Each had relatives residing in Chicago. The high price of meat at Columbus is causing people to eat fish and eggs. Grocers say they are selling more white fish than they ever did. Fish markets also report large sales of lake and river fish. There is also a big demand for eggs since the price dropped. Grocers are paying 18 cents a dozen, which is 2 cents more than the Columbus shippers offer. The Allen .County Sportsmen's League, organized for the protection of game and the enforcement of the game laws, is preparing to broaden into an organization which shall Include the entire Twelfth Congressional district. The league has opened war on, manufacturing concerns which are alleged to be polluting streams by permitting poisonous refuse to drain into them. A smooth graft is being worked In Southwestern Indiana by agents selling wire fence to farmers, thei price agreed on being usually 8 cents a foot The farmer thinks this a small price for the fence, but when the bill comes around he finds that the 8 cents relates to every wire, of which the fence is composed. The fraud has been successfully "pulled off" in a few cases. The pyromanlac who for the last few weeks has been retting fire to at least one stable a week, set fire td another stable in Evansville and two negroes who were sleeping in the barn were nearly cremated. The fire was discovered just in time to get the colored men from, the burning barn. The firebug first used a large quantity of coal oiPon the stable and then applied a torch. The Rev. Robert Burns, pastor of the M. E. church at Windfall, received an unusual surprise at the parsonage last week in honor of his twenty-ninth birthday anniversary. A cow and calf, a sheep, a hog, some geese, ducks, guineas, chickens and Belgian hares, with $11 in cash and a quantity of stock food, were presented to the clergyman by members of his congregation, after which a dinner was served. Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the State Board of Health, has evolved a plan to have the churches of Indianapolis and other cities of the State observe "Tuberculosis Sunday," April 24. The plan, as adopted by a number of cities, is to have the ministers talk on the topic and to present explanations of the ravages of consumption and best known methods of prevention and cure. The day will be observed generally throughout the United States. Five horses, , a cow, and valuable farm implements, valued with the barn at a total of $3,000, were burned In Perry Township, Marion County, on the farm owned by James Norwood, clerk of the Criminal Court in Indianapolis. The barn caught fire at about 9 o'clock and was totally destroyed, with everything In it. The insurance will cover about half the amount of the loss. Mr. Norwood said he had no idea as to what caused the fire unless it was started by tramps who might have been lodging in the barn. A physician's prophecy made fifty years ago came true recently when John Elliott, a prominent farmer near Connersville, died suddenly of apoplexy. Half a century ago, when Mr. Elliott was a small boy, he fell from the loft of a sawmill, striking his head against a beam. His physician, the late Dr. S. W. Vance, prophesied at that time that he woudd die suddenly of apoplexy, but that the time of his death might be distant Mr. Elliott was 62 years old when, as had been forewarned, he suffered a stroke of apoplexy and died a few hours later. He leaves a widow and four children. Charles Miller, a minor, has sued the Evansville Veneer Works for $10,000 damages for the loss of four fingers. He alleges he was injured while working in the plant of the company in Evansville. Peter Cripe, direct descendant of a Revolutionary War hero and for eighty years a resident of St. Joseph County, died last week, aged 86 years. He was well known throughout Northern Indiana, especially among older politicians. Omer Binford, a farmer near Greenfield, is holding a bunch of forty two-hundred-pound hogs for a "higher" price. He has been Importuned to sell every day since hogs started on the high stride. A few days ago he turned down an offer of $10.23 at the farm. Mrs. T. Wayne Anglin, wife of an attorney at Warsaw, is suffering from trichinosis, the result of eating raw pork. Her condition is regarded as serious. Mrs. Anglin is fond of raw ham and often, while preparing a meal, has been accustomed to eat small slices of the meat. The 2-year-old girl of Mr. and Mrs. Jolm W. Moore, of Evansville,' ate several pink arsenic and strychnine pills, thinking they were candy, and died in a short time from convulsions. On a wager of $10 that he could not eat two dozen scrambled eggs in ten minutes, Alex Borer, night watchman at Petersburg, established a new record as an egg eater, and won the money In nine and one-half minutes. The feat was accomplished at a restaurant, and when Borer finished he asked if there were any more eggs, that the last tasted as good as the first.

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44"4"fr While Roy Cole and three other young men from Owensboro, Ky., wert riding on an Evansville and Eastern Traction car, near Hatfield, their hats blew off. Cole nulled his revolver and made the conductor back the car half a mile or so and the men then got oS and secured their hats. Cole was arrested and taken to Rockport. George Kehl, aged 60, living two miles south of Shelbyville, saw two of his chickens fighting, when he ran into the yard to separate them. As ha was exerting himself he fell over dead, the result of heart trouble. He had been subjected to this disease for ser era.1 years. He had a mother, aged 90 years, lying at the point of death in Louisville, Ky. A few charred boards mark the place where Joseph Addison, "the Shelby County hermit, has spent most of hia days. The man built a hut years ago on the banks of Big Blue river, and held a lifetime lease on It by courtesy, of the Billman family, owners of t.he ground. One night last week the shack burned to the ground, the result of Incendiary origin. Addison is now at the County Infirmary. Starting with the essertion that only picture shows would be tried on the Elkhart public for Sunday amusement at the five theatres, the Bucklen man agement now announces that an innovation will be offered next Sunday night at which time the Rosar Mason Stock Company will give a performance. The theatre managers have retained State Senator Robert E. Proctor to defend them in event the ministerial Association attempts prosecution. Mrs. Sarah Stokes and her baby, aged 15 months, were drowned In the Ohio river, ten miles below Mt Vernon last week. Mr. and Mrs. Stokes, with their baby and friends of Uniontown, Ky., came to that city m gasoline launches, and on their return one of the boats exploded and began burning in the middle of the river. In attempting to step from one launch into the other Mrs. Stokes fell into the water with her baby in her arms, und both sank. Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Scott of Owensville, have just welcomed the fourth pair of twins. Mrs. Scott's family has a record in this line. Her mother had one pair of twins and one set of triplets; a sister had two pairs of twins and a set of triplets. This makes seven pairs of twins and two sets of triplets in the family of the mother and two daughters. One pair of twins belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Scott will celebrate their birthday anniversary on different days of the month. One was born a few minutes before midnight, the other a few minutes after midnight Charles Anthony, aged 16, son of the Rev. T. J. Anthony, of Laurel, saved the lives of Mrs. Samuel French and two children when they were about tobe run down by a train on a trestle near there. Young Anthony was fishing, and heard the screams of the woman as a rapidly moving train apJ proached the bridge. Mrs. Anthony and children were midway of the long trestle and their fate seemed inevitable. The young man ran on to the bridge, dragged the terror-stricken woman and children on to a projecting beam and succeeded in reaching a place of safety a moment before the train thundered by. Officials of the Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Company have announced tat they will build an in terurban station in Logansport, which will cost between $40,000 and $50,000. Recently,' Mayor D. D. Fickle served notice on the company that it would not be permitted to use Broadway as a freight depot, and since then the officials have been locking about for a suitable site for a passenger station and freight depot Work on the South Bend & Logansport interurban line is progressing. Five grading outfits are now at work and it is expected that the line will be completed from South Bend to Lake Maxincuckee by fall. Those in charge say that cars will be running from Logansport to South Bend by July 4, 1911. There are lots of ducks coming in already in the Kankakee region, and a good many geese, too. But Indiana hunters are not allowed to hunt very much. Most all of the swamp land in Jasper County has been leased for hunting purposes to Chicago clubs. The Diana Gun Club, the Valley Gun Club and the Capital Gün Club hold leases for almost every acre of swamp land from central Newton County to the Stark County line, in many instances on both sides of the river. Local hunters In past years have disregarded these leases to a great extent and hunted about where they pleased, but this year these clubs have hired active private game wardens, with instructions to arrest trespassers, and Chicago sportsmen will hare about all the fun. It has been charged that many of the hunters do not take out licenses to hunt in Indiaua, and are themselves liable to fines. Mrs. D. W. Bolt, of Fort Wayne, left her shopping bag containing a total of $1,130.67, much of which was in gold, in a street car. The purse was found by the conductor and was returned to Its owner a few hours later. President Taft has tent the following Indiana postoffice nominations to the Senate for confirmation: Commodore D. Houchin, Petersburg; Joseph IL Mills, Syracuse; D. C. Bickhard, Markle; Henry Jeanner, Llgonler; AlLert L. Anderson, Jeffersonville. successful fruit raiser, with peaches as his specialty, says that he expects them to be rare this year, as the hard winter killed nearly all the buds. Two years ago, in a poor peach season, he had fine fruit and a large quantity of it. A well-dressed j-oung man has been passing counterfeit ten-dollar gold pieces in Terre Haute saloons, and his several victims who have reported to the police, think they are not the only ones, as the nice young man had a handfu; of the coins when they saw him. Carolina Winters, azed GO, was fatally burned at Portland when her clothing caught fire while burning trash in the yard at her home. She was unmarried and lived alone. Acting rndcr instructions from the State Board of Tax Commissioners, County. Assessors have instducted the township assessors to list for taxation all gravel road bonds held in the county. There has been considerable difference of opinion among attorneys as to the taxability of these securities, and the question will eventually have to be settled in the courts.

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