Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 5 May 1910 — Page 3

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3.K WACDA J. WEST Copyrfxlit. 1909, by V7. G. Chapman. Copyrfeht in Great Britain

o Ore CHAPTER XVIII. "If that Isn't a -wireless I'm hearing. I never heard one," quoth Johnny. The trio had taken refuge belovr. ;s the rain was falling heavily and there was no cabin accommodation above. "I learned the code, you know, coming over." he confided to Betty. "ynder what they're saying? Listen." Johnny's knowledge was not very extensive. Ha deciphered the words "Tjosa," 'great haste." "make all efforts to save life,'.' and "H. II." "Well, we're on the trail of the story, anyhow," he cheerfully mused. "That ought to be some consolation." All night the three were crowded i Jt space not big enough for two o. them. The yacht made good time, and when It finally stopped with a Jolt, Meta sought hem out and bade them go achore. They were landing at the wharf of what might have been a convention?.! English seaport country place. At th end of a driveway, over which everybody limped except City Kdltor Burton, who Benonl had left tethered In the yacht, rarr bled a pretentious house of Gothic architecture. A modern glass covered piazza was built along one side of the place, and as they mounted the steps Betty recognized within. this enclosure Tyoga in cap and apron, in charge of a pair of children, approximately 9 and 10 years old. The, toy was the larger of the two, a slight dark lad, with a petulant expression and awkward movements. Later Betty saw this awkwardness was caused by a deformity of the hip. The girl was plainer of face than her brother, but her figure had the perfect symmetry of all wild things that live In the open air. Tyoga was . mending a white garment, but at sight of the pilgrims she dropped her work and went forward to greet them, leaving the children staring after her. She bowed before Betty and the two other Americans, kissed Meta warmly on the cheeks, and embraced Benonl passionately. When these two were together the relationship of mother aud son was easily discernible. "Ah, so you came safely away," she Bighed. in a relieved manner. "I was so alarmed. Hamley came home this morning. He and the old man had a dreadful argument. They are upstairs now. It has been frightful. But you must not mind. I do not know what I am going to do with the children. They are getting so old now. I can't put them off with fairy tales any longer. It !s racking." She turned to Betty. "I'm glad your friends found you. Poor child! The strain on you has been terrible, but the snarl is rearing Its end. You shall soon see." The interior of the house was as conventional as Its exterior. Betty, Larry Morris and Johnny felt that the penumbra of mystery was at length being pierced by the return of reason. "But If Mr. Wayne finds these people here he may kill them." objected Benonl. - "He shall not see tfcra," assured Tyoga, "Nor Ilackieye. neither. Th-y and the children must all be out of sight before he comes down stairs. Bince she is dead Hackleye cannot abide th-a sight of the children f any more. And all her things he wants them out of sight down here, yet he lives In her old rooms. Take them to the north wing. Meta, and I will brlnj the children." The north wing had four bedrooms, a sitting room, and a small alcove. It was done In English chintz, and several canaries sung and swung in the- windows. In Betty's room had been placed garments more conventional than those she wore, and a dozen little toilet conveniences, not the least welcome of which was a box of hairpins in assorted slz?s. She lingered long at her dressing why shouldn't she have done so? In all this time she had not been ao near the accustomed luxuries of life. The bath tub was a delight, the brushes, creams and powders brought back visions of civilization, and even the makeshifts for fashionable clothing were a comfort. True, the skirt laid out was plainly Tyoga's and needed h dozen reefs and tucks; but for a wais: there was an old-fashioned polonaise, and this was better suited to Betty's size.. When she was finished she really felt proud of herself, and awaited the reunion with the boys In the sitting room with great anticipation. They bad fared better In the matter f clothes, though Johnny's trousers were too long and Larry's were at half-mast. While they criticised, commented, and compared the children burst In upon them. The boy limped quietly In. but the girl stormed through the doors like a whirlwind. -Where you live when you were a little girl?" she flashed at Betty. "Pi-j they always have something doing around that you couldn't see Into?" "Of course they did," said Betty. "Those things always happen when you're children." 1 "But I don't believe It was like it Is here." persisted the child. "Here things are so funny, they make you creep If you don't want to. You needn't scowl, brother, you know It's true. Anybody can see It. And why did thesa people come here in those skin clothes? And why has Tyoga been so worried? And why won't papa see us, and where Is mother? Do you oh. tell ,me do you think our mother's dead?" the child cried, flinging herself In Betty's Up. "We had the loveliest mother, and she's been gone for so long!" "what was your mothers name, dear?" questioned Betty, though he knew before she asked, and felt ajfiaumsd of the query. She had the hot little head pressed close to her shoulder and could feel the rising sobs. The ; boy bad on over to the window and was tapping It moodily with his fingers. "She was Mrs. Cerisse Wayne Hack leye," replied the child, "but we Just called her mother." Betty's tears mingled with those of the little girl. "I don't know, dear, he answerea. wwi im we get a post and then we'll know." "That's what Tyoga always says. continued the child. "But the post nev er comes here any more. What's your name?" "Betty Lancey." "And his'nr "Mr. Johnson. "And his?" "Mr. Morris." "Mine's Paula, and, brother's is Wal-, ter Hamley." announced the child. "We ust call him Walter, though. lie's aw fully shy, Is brother. He doesn't wear mother's picture any more; he says ihe's been gone so long that she fioesa't love us or else she'd come back. But that Isn't so. Tyoga went away for a long time, but Tyoga came back. Thi3 Is mother, see?" She opened the locket around her aeck and displayed to Betty the now 'familiar face of Cerisse Wayne. It was such a beautiful, lovely, mock

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Laaicey ing face, but it wasn't a good face! Betty couldn't held acknowledging that to herself even as she made her bowto the witchery of the painted features before her. There was nothing of the niother there. "I hate this place," went on Paula. T don't like the blacks and I don't lik the quiet that's always here. Pj'. said he'd take us to England, but sine ? mother went away he never talks of that any more. Papa doesn't seem O love us like he did. He was away, to. He's just oome home. And so cross: Whj tfce other day he stepped on one of my guinea pigs and killed it, ' and I then he killed another and took and drowned the whole pen full of them in the river. He used to be so good." "Paula, you've talked enough." chided the boy. "These folks don't care." Larry proceeded to make ft lends with Walter, and ;etty and Johnny kept Paula amused with a wonderful game of ball that you make out of your handkerchief and twirl around from one to another on two hat pins. Gradually Lrrry and Walter got into the fun. and the revel was at its height when Le Malheureux came into the room. "Le Malheureux!" cried Betty, and stretched out ber hand in welcome. But tha shrouded figure stood aside. "Excuse me, i please," he protested. "So these are your friends? Now they have found you. I hope they may be able to see you safely home again. I will ask of you, too, a favor. Will you take these two helpless children with you? They belong to my sister, Mrs. Hackleye, known to you as Mrs. Wayne. I wish they may go to their father's people In England. There is no one else who can take care of them and they mustn't stay here any longer. No." reading the question In Larry's eyes, "the father Is not dead, but he Is not welL And It Is best for them to go." "When can we go?" blurted Larry, "and where !a the father? Didn't he ki " Betty threw the ball at Larry, and it struck him squarely In the mouth, interrupting the question on his lips. "Judge not," cautioned Le Malheureux. "I will dine with you later, after the children have gone to bed." The remainder of the day was a catechism by the children. They devoured their strange visitors with questions about the country they had never seen, wondered If they would meet their mother, made ä thousand childish plans for the voyage, and drew lots as to which of their pets they would take with them. Discussion as to the relative merits of white over guinea pigs and peacocks was bordering on belligerency when Tyoga carried the juveniles away to the room that did duty as a nurserv- anrf ift their impatient elders to await the coming of Le Malheureux. CHAPTER XIX. The clock In the room told ten. and he was not yet there. The children slept anl Betty ;'.nd her companions moved restlessly trom room to room. Had It not been for Johnny, Larry and she might have been exchanging a thousand queries as to "when did you first begin to love me." and "do you remember that time?" but as It was they tried to be unselfish and make general conversation and, as is usual In such cases they only succeeded In having everybody miserable, Johnny as well as themselves. Angry voices sounded from the corri dor.. One, unmistakably that of De Malheureux, the other that of an older and a mode irate man. They extinguished the lights, and Betty cautiously stealing to the door put her eye to the keyhole and her eat to the crack. Out In the hall wan Le Malheureux. with him a bent old man, white-haired and saffron-skinned. The old man leaned totterlngly on a staff. "I hate you, hate you. a thou sand times more than I ever have done before, oh wretched son!" he shrilled. "Vile that you are!" "You cannot, father," interrupted the harsh voice of Le Malheureux, In a sorrowful intonation. "Ybu have long condemned me to tortures. What I am you made me." The two walked slowly down the rridor. Motioning to Larry and Betty ta await his return Johnny followed In their wake. Through the main building and across to the south room wing they went, stopping in what was evidently the old man's sitting room. There the discussion broke out afresh "I hate you. I say A thousand times more." repeated the old man. "Unfllial son! But I have outwitted you! My cohorts, my good black negroes, any one of them worth a thousand such sons as you, have found out your secret castle, the gate to thos4 bonanza fields where the diamonds lie so closely bedded together that a needlepoint could not separate them. I am free of you now, forever, free; do yoj understand? That wealth that your mother and young aunt so long denied me Is mine, mine and Cerlase's. Ah, there Is devotion for you, devotion for you! She is- -Irl after my own heart! What vim! What nerve! What daring! My Cerisse! No chickennerved fool like you, and you, my son! Bah! Now that I have the path to tho mines, now that I need him no longer, Hackleye may go, and his children with him If he wishes. They are but poor offspring for my beautiful daughter to own. Small wonder ehe never loved them. Nor him either. Her heart has long been with one man, and now with all this new wealth she shall have him. Money buys anything! Diamond are money! Cerisse shall be rid of this Hackleye. I hate him, too!" Another figure stepped out of the darkness. Johnny recognized the early morning visitor he had trailed from the Desterle home Into the Fladders mansion, months before. "Don't believe that for a moment." this man rasped. "You blithering old fool you! Cerisse Is dead! Do you hear! She's dead! Dead!" The old man dropped his staff anl fell back into the arms of Le Malheureux. who led him to a seat near by. "Hackleye. Hackleye!" walled thold man, "you didn't you didn't. Yu j aldn't kill her?" Hackleye pulled a roll of newspaper clippings from his pocket and dangled them before the old man's eyes, and spread them out on the table before him. With quivering lips the stricken man read, punctuating each sentence with a moan. He saw the headlines only, then flung the papers from him and tried to reach Hackleye with his staff. "And you, you" he malevolently called to Le Malheureux. "why did you not prevent it?" "row could I?" answered Le Malheuroux, "and why should I? You know what Cerisse was, father. A mur

deress at heart, and my own sister. My mother's daughter!" "Yes. and mine," snarled the old man. "Where are those brats of Ilackleye'j? I'll kill them ki(! them. I tell you!" Le Malheureux rang sharply on a bell. Benonl evtcred from the hall, ami together thev l ore the old man from the room. Hackleye cat hero! up the clippings and with darkening brow paused before the portrait of the two children that hur.g on the wall before him. Opposite was a life size painting of the mother, and his wife radiant, smiling as she had been in her early girlhood. at:d when she had listened to the ardent ljve-maklng of her future husband. As the man looked the frown vanished. A breeze stealing in from the window swayed the portrait forward on the wall. With outstretched hands and lips apart the girl in the picture seemed to move towards the weary man. to offer him the roses she held in her hands. The dim lights completed the illusion. Hackleye sprang forward to embrace the girl In the picture, soft words upon his lips. "Sweetheart, sweetheart." he cried, "you've come back to me. I know it, and you'll never go .gain, will you, dear? J;m my girl again, just mine, just mine " He had touched the canvas now and its clammy surface woke him from his dream. Hurling it lack against the wall, Hackleye snatched a Jeweled

knife from the table, and slashed the canvas into finest fringe. "And all for love of a woman." quoth Johnr.y to himself, as Hackleye unseeing rushed down the corridor in a blind rage and almost knocked him over. (To be continued.) THE PARADISE CF BABIES. Jjipnnese Find Ao Troable Too Great In Giving Pleasure to Children. Japan, the Flowery Land the Land of the Cherry Blossom and the Chrysanthemum Is. a happy place for the wea folk to live in. Xo trouble is too great for the Japanese if it brings pleasure to the "treasure flowers," a3 their babies are called, hence small wonder is it that tears are but seldom seen. Japanese babies never seem to cry, writes V. Louise Wrench. Quaint, little, sage faced individuals, with shorn heads and obliquely set eyes, they remind us of dolls, the gayest aSul most delicately embroidTed garments enwrapping the tiny limbs, for a mother's first care after ler baby is born will be its dress. Each baby's robe will have some special color, according to the month in which it was born, and a mother will spare no expense over the tiniest mite's wardrobe. There seems to be a superstition that the gayer the child's kimono, the better chances in life it will have. As soon as any hair appears the baby has Its head shaved, only a fringe around the forehead and neck, with a tiny tuft In the center, being left. Then as soon as the mo her'3 artistic sense is satisfied she presents her baby to Hotel, the god of children, who is ono cf the seven gods of luck. As soon as the hair begins to grow again she shaves it on once more until she has obtained the result she wishes. Unfortunately, however, this ceremony is not r.lways performed with a clean razor, scrupulous though the Japanese are in many respects, and often causes unpleasant sore3. The Japanese attribute this to naughtiness, which they say lurks beneath the scalp, and they fancy that If this Illness, or devlltrj, comes out while the children are q ilte young they will be healthier in later life. As soon as the children eo.ne to the age of reason (anywhere between the ago of 6 and 10), they begin to leave off thsir baby ways, apparently of their own accord, and at once begin to tako thear share of tha world's duties. As soon as a baby is barn it is handed over to a sister, who takes care of It, and It is a common sight in Japan to see little girls' of 6 or 7 with sleeping babies strapped to their backs like a knapsack, while a glri with no sisters or brothers will have a big doll substituted. Hence when quite babies themselves they are taught to look after others. Little boys in Japan never seem to be affected with shyness, and they are extraordinarily polite, air. ays Interested in what is said, and especially attentive to a stranger should he attempt to converse with him. There is no scolding and punishing of Japanese children, no shutting them away in dull nurseries with hirelings to look after them, but in the land of the chrysanthemum children are as welcome as the sunlight, they love and are loved, the simple, unfettered life they lead helping them ' to become healthy, morally and physically, and the stern word duty to them Is nothing to fear. The Sahllme Porte. The phrase "the sublime part" arises from an aspect of the sultan's capital. The French word3 "sublime porte" are derived from "porta sublima," meaning "the lofty gate." Constantinople city used to have twelve gates, and near one was a building with an imposing gateway called Bab-1-llumajun. In this building resided the grand vizier, and thero also were the officers of the chief ministers, whence all the edicts of state were issued. The French phrase was adopted because at the time French was the language of European diplomacy. The Way. "I wish you would tell me how you keep your razor In such excellent condition." "It would not help you If I did tell you." "Why not?" "Because you failed to start out a3 I did: I married a woman who isn't subject to corns." Houston Tost. Ile.-ison for Leaving he Conutry. A college man has made an inquiry as to why a group of 400 students left the country. Forty per cent of them said there wasn't any money in farming. Seventeen per cent lefl because of the hard work, and another 17 per cent left because of the lack of social advantages. Daily Thoutflit. We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our v.ill3. Men imagine that they ;ommunIcate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment. Emerson. liefore nnd After. "Before we were married you used to stand under my window and sing." "Yes," answered Mr. Meekton, "you were a great deal more pit lent with my singing then than you are now." Despondency Is not a state of humility; It is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride. Fenelon. Nearly S?.000 persens visited Shakespeare's home In 1DCD.

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Should F.lliuiunte Drudgery. Especially is the woman of to-day changing in the scope of her mental development, states Judge Wiliard McEwen, of Chicago. She has a much better understanding of what i3 going on in the world and her interest is more vital in the things outside her own particular sphere than it formerly was. Woman Is waking up to a desire for individuality, which is just as natural an impulse as the desire for immortality. It is in a consciousness of individuality that people get their real happiness. Under r ast conditions man has been til 2 individual and woman, an impressionable creature, whose religion, training and sex Instintt3 made her satisfied with children, and home, and working for a nun. who is most of the time a fal.se ideal. She is modifying that condition, my judgment the real question woman's independence as a factor In of in the partnershop Is a question of sex. Taxation without representation, improvement in government through woman's participation are idle arguments so far as being of any effect is concerned. Woman has been long in a condition of subserviency and is coming to realize it. Man might as well recognize this and figure taat it is going to cost him something that he ought to pay. An economic question must be considered with reference to present conditions. If tested by the days of our grandfathers, woman's present attitude and manner of looking at life Is to be deplored, but tested by our times 'woman's situation and change In her relationship to man have Injected a new element into the conditions which should be charged up to the account as legitimate expense. The drudgery in a woman's life should be eliminated as far as is consistent with the family purse. It is not incumbent on a woman to get tired out and overheated baking bread when a few nickel? Invested at the corner bakery will provide the table with bread that no doubt will prove much more palatable. The day of the woman drudge is test nearing its close, and we are not going to turn back to the good old days of the thatched roof and the dirt fioor. Mecjt nnd the IJrnln. Wium tte brain is at work marshaling ideas, producing mental pictures, and calling Into action stored-up memories and impressions, the cells of ita mysteriously potent "gray matter" undergo a change of form. Cavitle3 are formed in them, which, as the brain becomes wearied by long-continued actio i. fill with a watery fluid. Part of the substance of the cells appear to have been consumed in the process of thinking, but in the hours of sleep the exhausted cells regain their original form, the sapply of recuperative material coming from the blood, and on awakening, the mind finds Its Instrument restored and prepared again for action. Dainty Cla Day Frock. Summery frocks are absorbing most women now, and the pretty girls who are making ready for commencement are especially busy with the dainty summer fabrics. A pretty pink linen model Is shown here, a braided tunic of the linen dropping over a plaited skirt and extending up to meet a deep yoke of pin tucked pink batiste. The sleeves are of the tucked batiste, straps of the linen extending down the length of the arm. On these straps and all through the braided pattern are worked coin dots with pink linen floss. The bat Is a Gage leghorn model faced witirpink satin and trimmed with pink roses and white tulle. AVnalilnjor Furniture. Can furniture bo washed? It ccrtair.)y ran and it is a pity more i3 not washed before applying polishes or varni-h. It is almost impossible to clean finder marks from furniture unless they are washed off with tepid water ?n 1 white soap. Polish dry with a clean cloth. You will find a few drops of muriatic acid added to your favorite polish excellent for removing grease spots. Equal parU of linseed oil and turpentine, with a little muriatic acid, makes one of the cheapest and best polishes. SInny Wumta la the Lair. Few people realize that fully 20,000 American women of to-day have qualified for the law, says the Xew Idea Magazine. Nearer the average conception is the number who have be-

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P come advocates before the United States Supreme Court 40. Yet it is undeniable that there are splendid opportunities for women lawyers, and the 20,000 of to-day promises to be largely increased in the coming year3. one of the most authoritative legal publications declaring that women are needed to analyze, digest and classify the quarter million decisions of Federal and State courts handed down in the ten years ending with 1010. The fact that out of 20,000 admitted lawyers only 40 appear before the gowned justices at Washington does not Imply that the remainder are engaged fn housekeeping or other pursuits. These women lawyers are representing their clients and appearing before the courts in their own states, doing valuable and remunerative legal work. ' $Tds and faiices Bordered materials make many summer gowns. Plumes to match the gown are used on black hat3. In Paris short-skirted evening gowns are fashionable. Xew combing jackets are made of flowered erefonne. Seme of the cotton foulards are as beautiful as the silks. Hats of black straw are seen trimmed with silver braid. Crochet lace is smart on gown3, jabots, blouses and even on hats. Cornflower yellow is one of the newest shades for evening gowns. There is a craze for brown and many new shades have been shown. Many of the new turbans are trimmed with huge bows of changeable ribbon at the back. Parasols are seen with long, fantastlc handles of carved wood, such as elephant and bulldog heads. The black hat is probably most durable from its power to withstand dust and spots and its satisfying harmonj with any color of costume. AVoiueti's Clothing;. Dr. Haig Ferguson in a lecture at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary the other day had same severe thing3 to say about the clothing of an adult woman. It wa3 hampered by fashion and superstition and nothing could be a greater tribute to the strong nerves and powerful muscles of women than the fact that their health had survived for centuries their habits of cloth- ' A woman's clothing was the despair of the hygienlst. Children and girls were more sensibly clad, but when girls grew up they were often clothed in a way which made them unable to walk, run or breathe. Weighty skirts, low-necked . gowns, "pneumonia blouses," the modem hat. the highbeeled shoe with its pointed toe, were all condemned. But, then, warnen will have It so and so It will remain. To Waih Cornets. First rip the front seam on both sides and take out the steels. Then dissolve some soap jelly-, made by shredding half a pound of the best yellow soap in one quart of boiling water, and simmering until dissolved In warm water. Two tablespoonfuls of jelly to half a gallon of water is usually sufficient, but hard water may require more. Put the corsets into the suds and allow them to soak for five minutes. Then spread them on a board and brush thoroughly with a well soaped nail brush, dipping them occasionally into the suds to remove the loosened dirt. When clean, rlr.se through two lots of wann water and hang up to drip dry. When almost dry, iron on the inside with a warm flat iron, and after thoroughly airing replace the front steels and sew them firmly in. If this is carefully done, the corsets will emerge from the washtub as good as new. Inertla of the Nerve. The researches and experiments of a French scientist have led him to the conclusion that the cerebral nervous system is incapable of perceiving more than an average of ten separate impressions per second. After each excitation of the nerves a period of Inertia follows, lasting about one-tenth of a second, and during this period a new impression cannot be made. According to the Investigations of this scientist a person cannot make more than ten, or at the most a dozen, separate voluntary movements of any kind in a second, although the muscles, Independently of the will, are capable of making as many as thirty or forty. A Disappoint ntent. Artists, poets and writers generally conspire to represent woman as being beautiful, gentle, self-sacrificing and the embodiment of love. With this extravagant ideal of woman formed for them in their youth, is it surprising that many men are doomed to disappointment? Truth. To YVnah OiM'alntrd Wnlla. Oil-painted walls must be washed with soap and water, using a soft flannel cloth and taking care to wring it well before using. Use cold water to finish and dry with a linen cloth. Woman nnd the Motor Car. Can a woman drive a motor car? Robert Slass says she can, and la the Outing Magazine tells why. In one place he saj3: "Unusual physique is not necessary

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for the woman motorist. Neither sex needs extraordinary muscular development in automobiling, and also any woman not an invalid can master its mysteries quite as well as a man, provided she has the will and the patience to acquire the know-how. Certainly in the sphere of patience woman by nature is equipped to give man a long handicap. The woman motorist is not half so likely as man is to swear and call loudly for a tow when anything goes wrong with the car. She will more probably set quietly to work to find the trouble and remedy It quite a3 thoroughly as if she were cleaning out the kitchen range. "Remember, nevertheless, that thoughsex and slight physique are in no sense disabilities to the woman who wants to do her own motoring, and though her feminine patience and intuition stand her In good stead, she must not expect to succeed by intuition alone."

A World Uplde Down. Another announcement was lately made of the perennial discovery that women are alike the world over that gen'Je birth, training, envirmmem As not of themselves create a new feminine type. The fact Is as old as the race. The beggar maid, v.e have been assured for generations, proved an excellent queen for King Cophetua. Maud Muller would have quickly learned to adorn the station to which the judge might have called her. So the recent scheme of so-called "social leader" had not even the excuse of being a novel demonstration. Madam took two girls from ordinary boarding houses to her house, dressed them in her clothes, loaded them with her jewels, and introduced them to her millionaire frienas. The next day she told the newspaper of her successful trick, exulted over the enthusiasm with which "society" had accepted her victims, and thus demonstrated that 'wealth and false pride form the barriers between the classes." The contriver of the scheme said to the reporters, "l once dressed up my ccok in one of my gowns, and she mingled, with my guests. Her figure was beautiful, and she made a stunning appearance. But she did not feel at her case, and stayed only a short time. Back to the kitchen she went." It Is to be hoped that the girls in her latest experiment, nay, that the hostess herself, may show as good sense as did Mary, the cook. But the task of the two young. women is not an easy one. Will they go ba'.k to simplicity and industry and honesty and womanliness?' Or will they plot to force their way, by hook or crook, in the not toq genuine world of which they have caught a glimpse? Youth's Companion. Ret Women to Marry. Country girls are seldom old maids. Indeed, in the opinion of Prcf. William Thomas of the University of Chicago they are the best sort of women in the land for a man to marry. Prof. Thomas calls city girls artificial beauties and as proof points to the professional beauty specialists who make a living "doctoring" faces. He places the charge of extravagance against the city society girl and holds her country sister up as the saving grace for the matrimonially inclined. "Luxury 13 the barrier to the matrimonial young men and women of the cities," he declares. "Matrimony to the well-to-do must mean luxury, and the average young man does not want to assume that contract." In resorting to the country and emulating the graces, of the country girls, city women are but following the advice of the Chicago professor. "Girls, study your country sisters," he said recently. "Stop this everlasting fashion of stroking a shaggy poodle and wasting time on Teddy bears and the marriageable men will have more time for you. "There Is often a ring at the dcor of the city-bred girl that she refuses to answer because she Is either resting, trying to gain strength after an exhausting night 'with society,' or because she is busy reading some work cn beauty restoring. Go out into thfc country. Live the life of your country sisters and the bloom of health will come to your cheeks without the aid of cosmetics." Summer Sleeve SagxeiUon. Very few sleeves now are all In cna piece. An over and undersleeve are used in almost every case. The first sketch shows a foulard silk sleeve with deep cuff over an undersleeve of dotted net. The second sketch is a lingerie effect in white batiste, strapped with lace insertion. No. 3 shows the "peasant" or seamless shoulder, an extension of the bodice forming the sleeve, which falls over an undersleeve of heavy lace. N03. 4 and 5 show sleeves taken from two mohair frocks, one a tailored street gown and the other a little white mohair house dress. The last sketch is a ponge sleeve trimmed with oriental embroidery and mounted over an undersleeve of cream tuckfd batiste. Explained at Last. v Women are better than men, because they do not have women to tempt them. Smart Set.

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William Dorsmeier, aged GO years, living four miles from Evansville, while walking in his sleep fell down a flight of stairs and was killed. He leaves a family. Joseph E. Hennings, proprietor of the Grand Hotel and lessee and manager of the Grand Opera House in Anderson, was seriously injured when he slipped on a stairway and fell to the basement of the theatre. A surgeon found Hennings suffered a dislocation of his right ankle and that all the) ligaments of his leg below the knee were badly torn. Because hi3 father gave him a flogging with a piece of a rail, Everett Roberts, of Bright Light, on the Wabash river, ran into the house and obtaining a shotgun returned wounding him. The boy left home at once ard is still at large. The son is said to have refused to assist in driving hogs, whereupon his father seized a club and administered punishment Notwithstanding the wintry weather of the last week, mushroom hunters j have been coming into Peru with large I quantities of them. James Rhineber- ; ger, while there was snow still on the ground, found 119 mushrooms. Frank Moeck also brought In a bushel basketful of fine ones. Several persons report that they found mushrooms protruding through the snow, which Is unusual. Frank M. Young, of Hopkinsville, Ky., who is six feet seven inches tall, was denied admission Into the regular army at Evansville because of his height. Young says that until recently he was a street car conductor, employed on the lines in St. Louis, and be gave up his job because the company refused to alter the cars so he would not have to bend over each time he entered one. Frank Suits, a young man, totally blind, has completed breaking a fifteen acre field on a farm pear Greenfield. He Is the first blind man in Hancock County to undertake this kind of work. Suits used an ordinary walking breaking plow. When he supposed the plow to be near a corner he would stop the team and feel over the ground to get his bearings. Suits completed the field without any assistance. In a freight wreck on the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville railroad three miles south of Richmond, three trainmen were slightly injured and Joseph W. Hardlica, of St. Louis, was killed. Hardlica Is believed to have been a tramp beating his way. Letters in his pocket fixed his identity. The wreck occurred just across the Wayne County line, In Union County, and .was caused by a car jumping the track. A number of cars were badly damaged. Mrs. Nellie W. Lowe, matron of the V. M. C. A. of Omaha, ICeb., will ,be the successor of Mrs. Martha E. Walker as matron of the Y. M. C. A. of South Bend. Mrs. Walker tendered her resignation at the last meeting of the directors. She will leave July 2 for Europe, as chaperon of a party of young women on a one-year tour. Mri. Lowe Is one of the best-known Y. M. C. A. matrons In the country, and with .Mrs. Walker, ranks high In Y. M. C. A. circles. The scarcity of laborers has compelled Roadmaster D. R. Wright, of the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad, to bring a gang of twenty Hungarians from Fort Wayne to complete the work of ballasting and placing new rails on a stretch of track ten miles long between Portland and Stone Station. The work will require about one month to complete! The roadbed will be reballasted and new rails of the regulation weight and length will replace the present ones. Married in their yonth, divorced twenty-seven years ago, each taking another mate a short time afterward, only to go back to each other and be secretly married again in South Bend Is the succession of marital experiences of Henry Ranstead, aged 81, a retired farmer, of Terre Coupee, St. Joseph County, and Mrs. Jane Frame, aged 77, of the same place. Mr. and Mrs. Ranstead, during their first marriage, before ' clouds gathered to obscure their happiness, had three children, one son and two' daughters. Walton, the son, Is now 58 years old, and lives on the old homestead. James K. Yeagley, a produce buyer and shipper of DeMotte, was fined for the shipment of fifty-four quails, eight wild ducks, one snipe and seventeen rabbits to commission merchants xl Chicago on December 28 last. The game was shipped In a barrel by express and billed as rabbits. Yeagley's fine and costs amounted to $109. Convinced that there have been many violations of the game law in the Kankakee valley. Chief Deputy Game Warden Earle says he intends to break up the practice of Illegal killing and shipping of game birds. If he has to camp on the Kankakee all the year round. A strange monkey, believed to have escaped from a circus, committed suicide at the plant of the Globe Handle Company In Evansville, whither he had wandered, by hanging himself with a chain from one of the rafters. A cow valued at $90, belonging to Milton White, of near Nashville, became entangled In a clothes line last week and choked to death. Mr. White found the animal in the morning lying on the ground with the wire wrapped around its neck. George Hightower, of Greensburg, has a four-legged chicken which was hatched In ä brood last week. It is a full-blooded Plymouth Rock and the two additional "scratchers" are set between the normal legs. The fowl is alive and healthy. The new city directory for Peru and its Immediate suburbs shows that there i a population of seventeen thousand in the territory included within a radius of one mile and a half from the Public Square. The census of 1900 gave Peru proper a population of less than nlno thousand. The recent rains and snow killed. hundreds of young sparrows and some oilier birds in the vicinity of Muncie. Little feathered bodies were found in large numbers beneath trees. Because he literally exemplified the old expression, "throwing money at the birds," Frank Gray, a wealthy farmer, was arrsbid by the Muncie police on an intoxication charge. When picked up he was throwing coins from his pocket at tr. arrows in a tree and was otherwise blundering his money, all to the great delight of a larje crowd that had v '-rounded him.

Nettie Beabout, 10-year-old daughter of Mrs. Martha Beabout, made a heroic effort to save her mother's life when the latter fell face forward in an old-fashioned fireplace at Beck's Grove, near Columbus, by pulling her from the fire, but she failed. The mother died shortly after. Although Mrs. Rosan Westbrooks, aged 7S, of Jackson Township, Brown County, has several notes amounting to $700, secured by a lien on her father's home, she was taken to the County Infirmary at Nashville by Trustee Walker. Mrs. Westbrooks can not get any money on the notes and is in destitute circumstances. She has several brothers who are well-to-do, one of them being worth $40,000. The ownership of a potato patch In Sullivac has been decided by Judge Henderson, when he ruled In favor of the town of Sullivan in the suit of Uriah Coulson for an injunction to prevent the towns from digging up nil lot for the extension of Cross street. It was decided the garden was in the middle of the street, although Coulson had planted potatoes there a quarter of a century without molestation. Dr. Armstrong in attempting to put a halter on a vicious colt in its stall was crowded against the side of the manger with such force that a shoulder blade was broken. The broken bone pierced the flesh to the surface, and Internal injuries were also suffered. His condition Is serious. Dr. Armstrong was for several years a dentist at Galvestni, but a few months since gave up his practice and retired to his three hundred acre farm, known

"-j iHiuäiuc, vue mite uuiui ui iiüjfeiöt ownOil, apparently in abundance, was struck on the Frank Sanders farm, two and a half miles west of Sullivan, by the Hamilton Oil and Gas Company, but when the casting was pulled in an effort to shoot the well, one hundred feet of the hole caved in and shooting was delayed. It will be recased and shot without removing the casing. The sinking of the Sanders well, according to members of the Hamilton Oil and Gas Company, Is only a starter of a final prospecting effort In the Jamison field. Robert L. Sears, proprietor of the White Anchor laundry in Lafayette. and Jesse Ceemer, an employe, were seriously scalded by- the overturning of a copper tank containing fifty gallons of boiling water. The tank stood on a shelf just above the two men who were at work in the wash room. The shelf broke and the tank fell, throwing the water on Sears and Beemer. Sears is badly burned on the right side from the shoulder to the foot and Beemer about the lower limbs. Both will recover. Judson Miller, a farmer near Frankfort, had a narrow escape from death when sixteen sticks of dynamite, within a fev feet of where he fctood. exploded. Miller had been blasting stumps and as the dynamite had become damp he placed it near a heater to dry it out He had kept the caps separate from the dynamite but in some manner they were touched off causing the dynamite to explode. The heater was shattered and Miller's team, standing nearby, took fright and ran away, doing some damage to the wagou. Miller was knocked down by the force of the explosion, but escaped injury. Annoyed by the howling of a cat. which persisted in mounting his back fence, George K'ise, aged 45, of Onward, tea miles south of Logans port. obtained his gun, and going into the yard, firei point-blank at the cat The animal toppled from the fence, dead, and Klise simultaneously fell. He was seen to fall by his daughter, who was looking from a window, and thinking that he had been shot, she ran to him. Examination revealed that he was dead. Coroner George D. Miller, of Logansport, was summoned, and the investigation which he conducted showed that Klise had died from heart failure. The sudden shock caused by the discharge of the gun, brought on death. An ordinance not only prohibiting the sale of various forms of dangerous fireworks, but making it a misdemeanor to have such fireworks in one's possession, was introduced la the Richrrond City Council recently by William II. Bartel, the largest retail dealer in fireworks in Richmond and member of the Council for the Fourth ward. The ordinance places skyrockets, toy pis tols, cannon, explosive canes and other like devices under the bax A provision is made that on occasions of public demonstrations with special permit from the city, those vin charge of the demonstration may use rockets and other fireworks not usually permitted. Councilman Bartel. who will be a loser financially if the ordinance passes, will make a hard fighl in its behalf. James Cherry and Jesse McLain, farmers near Shelbyville, narrowly escaped injury when a dynamite stick they were thawing exploded. The accident occurred while the men were preparing to blast stumps. Fire of mysterious origin In broad daylight destroyed the large barn on the farm of George Sheller, six miles east of Muncie, resulting in a loss of $1,500. Two horses, valued at $300, and a number of other animals were cremated. Eli Degler and Hal H. Coffel, of Pennville, and Austin II. Williamson and Dr. Chew, of Redkey, were injured near Pennville, when an automobile In which they were riding ran into a tree. Monroe Mead, of Deer Creek, northwest of Flora, while plowing more than a year ago lost a valuable gold watch, which had been an heirloom in the family for years. Although a diligent search was nade, the watch was not found till last week, when Mr. Mead, while plowing the same field, uncovSherman Mackey, of Indianapolis, ii serving a jail sentence for trespassing on the farm of Alva B. Smith, near Avon, while fishing. Gladys Nash, the 12-year-old daughter of Walter Nash, a farmer, was shot to death by Rex Woodard, aged 16, in the Nash home near Sullivan. The girl died a half hour after the shooting. The boy was a neighbor and had picked up the gun from a bed to examine it, not knowing it was loaded. The girl's father exonerates Woodard ani says the shooting was accidental.