Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 32, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 May 1910 — Page 3

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The Quest of Betty Lancey

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Copyrisi;. 1503. by W. G. Chapman. Copyright In Great Britain

iTTf itt t CHAPTER XX. Half an honur later Le Malheureux Joined them in the rose and hummingbird patterned chintz drawing room. B-noni withdrew and Le Malheureux. still veiled, congratulated Larry MorrW nil Betty. "If you wish to be married before yon leave here," he said, "there Is the old French priest who used to be my mother's chaplain still here. He is a r.onoer.nrian. but still a priest for all that. He v.ill marry you yet to-night,. If you wish, and I think. Miss Lancey. It mii.t Le Letter if the ceremony wer celebrated. Do you not think so? There's r.o knowing what may await you." Betty blushed, but Larry hesitated not a minute. "Bring him on. bring him on," he cried. "We'll be married to-night!" "And I'll be the best man," shouted Johnny. "And City Editor Burton can usher." '"Will you let Meta be the -bridesmaid?" questioned Betty. "Oh. but what shall I do for a wedding gown'." "If you weren't so his." said Tyoga, surveying her critically, "we could loa l you Mrs. Ilackleye's mother's bridal robe. I have it still upstairs in an old chest." Meta and Tyoga had come In silently In the wake of Le Malheureux. "But. mother." interposed Meta. "there are other garments up in the old che3t. Perhaps we could make some of them fit" "Your wedding clothes will fit as well as mine, anyhow," ventured Larry. Put a woman on a desert Island and the prospect of a wedding will cause her inventive faculties to evoke the flesh-pcts of Egypt from the barreneat and! "The old chest" proved a treasure house. The gowns, the youngest of them, were at least a quarter of a century old, and some of them were of the mode of the French empire. All were rich -with rare lace and heavily wrought hand-embroidery. Some were of cloth of gold, tarnished now with the scowl of time, but exqul3ite still. There we-e quaint old slippers, 'and a bridal" veil of the filmiest Honiton that ever cam off a loom. No bride could be decked with more loving hands than was Betty for her midnight marriage In mid-Africa. Meti. as bridesmaid, had a glowing frock of scarlet satin and faintest amber lace, and great topazes about her shining ebony neck, and Tyoga produced a newfrock from somewhere. But Betty, ah. Betty! An old court gown of cloth of gold and yellowed satin was her bridal robe. Over It all ran delicately wrought roses In faded pinks. The marvelous web of Honiton draped her sweet face and rippled to the hem of her dress. The neck of the dress was low, and Betty's white shoulders were a sparkle of diamond pendants falling from a high diamond collar Tyoga had placed around her throat, and her plump arms were half covered with flowery bracelets. When they reached the chapel Le Malheureux himself pu: a. diamond girdle around the bride's none too slender waist. "My gift to the bride." he explained. Johnny's head was the brightest spot In the chapeL From the musty odor within and the drip of water on the moss-grown walls. the chapel, which had been reached through weird ways, was evidently a subterranean room. The altar was of Ivory, the er .vice dazzling beyond belief, and the altar cloths of exquisite workmanship. The ebony pews were miracles of the carvers art. and the ever-present leopard skin rugs were 'on the floor. The priest, bent double with years, and with hair and skin as gray as the pelt of a field mouse, mumbled through the long Latin ritual; at a slow, nerveracking pace. The candles flickered and the scent of the Jasmine and lotus with which Benonl had wreathed the altar, and Ailed the great vases that flanked the sanctuary, grew unbearable. The wedding supper was laid In the little sitting room. There were many flowers, and the viands, oddly assorted to occidental eyes, rested royally on platters and dishes of pure gold. Notody ate much, though Meta, Tyoga and Benonl served assiduously. Le Malheureux touched nothing at alL Betty, after several urglngs, forbore to press him. She had noticed that he never drank before anyone, and had long since grown accustomed to the down-dropping veil, the closely shroud ed figure, the well-concealed feet and hands. When the last course was served Le 'Malheureux arose. "Let me not be the skeleton at the feast." he temporized, "but Time does not pause for us. The woman you know as Cerisse Wayne, In reality Cerisse Wayne Hackleye. was my full blooded sister. The letters that were found In her safety deposit box In San Francisco bore reference to the dia mond minis at Tlougaley. For reasons I cannot now make known to you, their location for years was known only to me. My father In some way discovered their situation beneath and beyond the castle to which Miss Lan cey, now Mrs. Morris, was taken when she first arrived In Africa, and from which she has so recently departed. "You must know that though he 'a American born and bred, that for thir ty years my father has lived In this section, as absolute king over several thousands of the most desperate racs of blacks that inhabit this continent. He subdued them years ago through fear of what they considered his mag lc. Tyoga. there, was the wife of the rightful king. Meta. her foster daugh ter, and Benonl, as you have guessed. her son. For love of my poor mother, they not only served her, but 'r.av tended the family most faithfully ever since. Father han sent the blacks up there to pre-empt those mines, and charged to bring back with them a goodly load. Unknown to him his subjects have long been rebelling a - -.inst him. But the half of them vent to Tlougaley. The other half remained hidden here, and at any time may storm the castle. Many of the hous--servants are with the mutineers, an.: that enhances trie danger. I canr.o blame them for revolting. My fath r has been a cruel and despotic master. Their woes have been many. Tyoga cai usually check them. It was during her absence In America that they brcke bonds. That Is why she left Tlougaley so long alone with but MeU and Mrs. Morris to guard It. We thought they were safer there thin they would be here. We did not kno-v that father had discovered Tlougaley and had sent a force there to storm It! At that time we knew only of the mutiny." "Then we did come Just In the nick Vcf time," exclaimed Johnny Johnson. Larry squeezed Betty's hand thank-full-.

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A r. WE.TT "EE "No time for congratulations now." admonished Le Malheureux. "We must depart with the dawn." "How many of us will there be?" asked Benonl. "See the two children. Mr. and Mrs. Morris. Johnson there, myself, Meta, Tyoga, my father, if he will so; the Cure, and Hackleye," counted Lo Malheureux. "The murderer of your sister?" broke in Johnson. Lo Malheureux raised hi3 hand. "Hush," he said, curtly. "You have no right to accuse! We are not lawmakers we dare not Judsre nor charge. And be careful what you say before the children. I beg of you that. We will try to get to Khartoum. From there passage for you and the children to England will bo easy. And it will leave mo free to deal with what I must." CHAPTER XXI. An hour later bought the dawn. Guided by Meta, Larry and his wife, and Johnny reached the yacht that had brought Betty from America and found the children still sleeping and Tyoga and Hackleye already aboard. Th; Cure, fat and waddly, was trying his best to clamber on. Benonl wa3 not in sight, neither was Le Malheureux. A few moments later they appeared. L? Malheureux with a wallet in his hand, Cenonl carrying the old man, who. .ursing and screaming with all his might, was struggling against the Iron grip of the black. "My diamonds, my diamonds! Let me have them. What else Is worth In life to me now since Cerisse has died. Murderer, murderer!" he shrieked at Hackleye. "Ah. let me at him!" Mr Wayne raved like a maniac and tried to leap on shore again, but they lashed him to a chair and put a gag In his mouth. "Many as are his crimes, we dare not leave him to their hands," said 'Benonl, half regretfully. It seemed to Larry. The yacht took the river like a gull on the wing. The morning breeze was chill and portent of rain hung In the sky, though the sun was fighting to prick . the thickly banked up clouds. Fifty leagues had they gone, when City Editor Burton, who had not been left behind, to Betty's great delight, roared like a hurricane. Following the lion's stare to the left of them on the shore, they saw advancing up the river bank toward them a horde of blacks. Benonl hurried the women down stairs where the children and the Cure already were, end reached to lift the senior Mr. Wayne from his moorings. But he was too late. Th 3acht was how abreast of the barbarians, whose leader with fine aim shot his quondom tormentor straight through tha heart with a long, fine ar row. Benonl drew the gag from the old man's mouth and leaned jover to look at the arrow. Even superficial examination showed him the futility of aid. He knew too well the poisoned barbs of the tribe. Hundreds of arrows whis tled about the yacht, but glanced harm less from Its sides, and by rare chance none struck BenonL When he realized that Mr. Wayne was beyond human help he left the body as It was and crawling to the hatchway dropped be low. There he found the women in a tor ment of terror and the children, awakened by their sobbing, nervously com plaining about the cramped quarters and the rocking motion of the yacht. -What sort of fiends work is this boat?" questioned Larry, though Beno nl and Le Malheureux had both risen In his estimation since they had seen him successfully married to Betty. "It's my own invention," replied Le Malheureux, with not a little pride in hs tone. "Simple enough, too. If you Just know how. Merely the scientltic application of a few of the fundamen tal principles of electricity. This little mirror here reflects your whole course as plainly as if you were above deck or standing on the highest captain's bridge that ever was built That's Just the application of the rules of convergence and Infraction of light. As for the propulsion of this boat well, a series of buttons on this keyboard does It all. It's as efesy as playing on a piano or writing on a typewriter, or a sewing machine or running a telephone switchboard. If you Just know how. This is my wireless apparatus. I've found It useful no. Indeed," as he read the query on Larry's face "no press dispatches from this. I told your wife that on the way over. And I warn you as I warned her not to tamper with it" When Ii Malheureux paused, Beno nl went to him and spoke In African patois. Betty made out that he was filing him of his father's death. le Malheureux turned his post over to BenonL Then he went up alone to view his deaa. He was gone a very long while, and when he came back he neither ques tioned nor was questioned. Afterward when the Americans went above and found the body gone, and the deck freshly scrubbed, they asked Benonl what had been done with the corpse. Benonl pointed silently to the river. All day they followed the river and it3 chain of lakes. At every possible interval Betty or Larry or Johnny tried to hasten the solution of the mys tery still palpable before them, but nel ther Le Malheureux, nor Hackleye, nor the Cure, nor the three blacks would speak, and the yacht sailed on and on CHAPTER XXII. December wis crisping the air when they told Nar.isse Harcourt she might leave the hosp.tal. "Not for any length of tim. but Just for a trip down town, If you wish," said Dr. Fothergill. "Who do you want to go with?" "I'd like you, and Mr. Hartley." answered Mrs. Harcourt, frankly. "I want to go and buy some presents for these nurses who have been so kind to 'me. and I want I want to go and see my husband." Ir. Fothergill telephoned for Philip 1 he was there shortly before noon the doctor had asked, rhllip had i been able to buy a new overcoat that winter, and he felt more the Perl outside the gate than ever, when Mrs. Harcourt, in her rich furs and radiant beauty, followed the doctor Into the parlor. The months In the hospital had worked wonders with Mrs. llarcourt The old, unfathomable brilliancy had left her eyes, but there was a sweeter, a more human look within them, and the weird alabaster tones of her skin were replaced with a more babyish purity of luster. She was more a woman, less a strange, unreal phant.ni from another world. They did their shopping first, but curtailed It because the crowds in the stores stop-

per to gaze open-mouthed at the startling beauty of Mrs. Harcourt, the grim plainness of Dr. Fothergill, and Thilip Hartley's assiduous attentions to both the ladies. Then in one department store, some one whispered that thi woman In the luxurious furs was "that Mysterious Mrs. Harcourt. you know," and Phil had much ado to get both his charges unharmed into a waiting taxicab. Thither they went. direct to the jail. Harcourt had not been told of their coming visit, as his wife had expressly wished it so. She went rapidly through the dingy hall, and rattled imperiously at the bars of the door. Harcourt was sitting- moodily in one corner of the room, as had been his habit of late. He did not heed the rustle of silken skirts nor the faint perfume that aureoled his wife. -Harold." she called. "Harold, oh. Harold." At sound of her voice he turned and

ga sped. Then he rose, and like . p1 1 man. walked over and thrust his ha nds through the door. "Narcisse." he faltered, and whether it was fear, or wonder, or admiration hla face and voice, one cn.ii.i n,-t n tell. Plalnlv he -arno in of - ... - - aat. (To be continued.) AJJ UNMISTAKABLE EOND. me Illustration of he delations of YlelonU to Muiir. As we have more than once sug gested In the past, there i3 a sort of subtle bond between great victuals and great music. The exact nature of that bond eludes scrutiny, but there it i3, the Baltimore Sun says. Find a lover of sauerkraut and 3'ou will find a man who understands and admlre3 the nine superb sj-mphonles of Ludwig von Bee thoven. Such a man would warmly indorse the Idea of playing tha grand finale of the fifth symphony during the kraut course at dinners. The deter mined reiterations in the coda of that movement seem to suggest in a mystic way the benign endlessness of the krautlan skein. Like a rubber band. sauerkraut is without beginning and without end. Each strand clings to another. Eat a yard of it and another yard lures you cn. Onco started it is difficult to cease. So much for Beethoven and his gas tronomic affinities. Coming' to the symphonies of Johannes Brahms, one discerns a suggestion of another delightful .German delicatessen, to wit. rinderbrust mit meerrettig (breast of beef with horseradish sauce). If one contemplates a rasher of rinderbrust, boiled in the simple German fashion, one comes Inevitably to the thought that. In Itself, it has no epicurean merit whatever. It is, in fact, the most Insipid of dl3hes tough, bleak, monotonous and uninviting. Eating it as it come3 from the pot would be an appalling experience for a true connoisseur of victuals Is there not in all this some hint of Brahms? Isn't it a fact that hl3 symphonies, as they appear in the cold black and white score, impress one chiefly by their utter lack of flavor? One seeks in vain for luscious deviltry. The bassoon lacks buffoonry. The bass fiddles have no piquant wriggles. It i3 magnificent, true enough, but it is not appetizing. But Just as the flat rinderbrust has Its saving meerrettig. Just so the symphonies of Brahms gain favor in the playing. The meerrettig give the rin derbrust an indescribable tang, an in effable sting, a quaint flavor of diab lerie, and in the same way the emotions and mistakes of orchestral performers Innoculate the 'scores of Brahms with the blest microbes of human weakness. In the midst of a development section as academically perfect as the binomial theorem some irresponsible viola player (suffering, perhaps, from the fumes of cheap liquor), sounds a wolf tone or snaps a string, and the result is a golden moment. The music, thus mutilated, insults the intellect, but touches the heart One ceases to admire it, and begins to enjoy It. The whole subject, of course, is full of snares, and we pause for refreshments. Hut there Is need In the world for a philosopher who will work it out to ten places of decimals who will explain to us the subtle relationship between music and viands. We have hinted at the nature of the chains which bind sauerkraut to the great Ludwig, and rinderbrust to the austere Johannes. But why does the Bismarck herring suggest Wagner and the succulent kartoffelkloss Weber and "Der Frelschuetz," and stewed prunes Haydn, and hasenpfeffer Mozart. And why. when we hear the music of Richard Strauss, do we think inevitably of pink lemonade and snake-eaters, shell games and tight ropes. Jugglers and peanuts? Unman Ilelng Hibernate. "The human hibernation that goes on in the Russian province of Pskoy has a good deal of interests for scientists," a scientist said. "In fact several committees will visit Pskoy this winter to study the human hlbernators there. "These poor peasants have very little to do in tho winter and very little to eat. So they lie down in their beds with a bottle of water and a few loaves and sleep and nibble, sleep and ntoble, till the coming of spring. "A man of ISO pounds will sleey forty-eight hours, awake and take sip of water and a mouthful of bread, then fall asleep again for forty-eight tours more. A loaf and a bottle of water will last him a fortnight. When four months later he rises, pale and weak, and begins to plow the melted! soil his ISO pounds has fallen to 110, but otherwise he is well enough. Indeed, these Pskoy hlbernators are noted for their longevity." Philadelphia Record. Very Fastidious. "You have a wife-beater in Ja here?" "Yes." "Here are some, roses for him." "Sorry, madam, but he doesn't accept any flowers less expensive than orchids." Louisville Courier-Journal. cr Alwnya GronhiK. "Every time I meet that fellow he tells me a hard luck tale." "The same old story?" v "No; he runs it as a serial." Louisville Courier-Journal. Stunt?. "Dear, if the old cl'.thes man cornea around this week you had better sell him what old clothes we have." "Not till you get me some new ones.'1 Houston Post. Strp hr Step. I believe in improving environments, but when we have made the world fit; for men to live In we shall still need to make men fit to live in It. Sir Jamrs Duckworth. A Tlntlnnabulntinff Teno. Country Opera Director What d you think of our tenor? Stranger If I were you I'd hire him out as an imitator of the phonograph. Fliegende Blaetter.

Weather Terms Uluntruted. Maiden with a powder puff Dabbing here and there This reported weather-wise - Means, "Continued fair." Hubby coming home at one, Zigzag course a-wending Weather signal in this ease Would be, "Storm impending. Baby climbing on a chair. If she slips and falls, It is not unlikely that There'll be "Sudden squalls." Girl and lover have a spat. She flings down Iiis flowers; Lover, angry, grabs his hat And rushes off that's ' Showers.' ilan sees tailor on the street, Seems a trifle nettled. Crosses to the other side That suggests "Unsettled." Boston Transcript. Feminine Mier.i. "Miser" has always been recognized as referring to men only. The grim picture of the miser has shown a keen-faced, thin-chested man, bending over hi3 hoard. But recently several women have died in great apparent poverty, and their death has revealed considerable sums of money hidden among their poor belongings.. In one case the amount was amazingly large, twenty thousand dollars being found in actual money in various hiding places in one room. The vice of misjiioeyg is really mysterious to the normal woman, whose heart naturally beats in sympathy with the needs of her neighbors. A thousand women are improvident by virtue of their instinctive generosity, to one who is stingy, because she loves the feeling that she has money. Never was there a more wastefully misdirected force than in the career cf the miserly woman. Think of her self-denials, her cold-heartcdness. assumed for her own end, her endurance of hardness and her long years of silence and abstinence! That her suffering is worse than useless does not detract from the courage 'and persistence it involves. To eat and drink of the coarsest and scantiest fare, to shiver in cold and stifle in heat, to go ragged and dirty, and to know oneself hateful to one's little world this way of life, if chosen for a good and generous end, would be sufficient to enthrone a plain woman as a saint. The miser lives in a world where all the moral values are upside down. By just so much as the miserly woman practices the austere virtues does she become the slave of her own greed. Instead of losing her life that she may save it, she loses it that she may lose life. Joy, soul itself, a thousandfold more hopelessly. She plunges into t'ae dark gulf of a misery masquerading as pleasure. The mask drops and the horrible truth is revealed only when the last words of the tragedy are spken: " We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out!" Youth's Companion. Health and llenutr Ulm. Add a few drops of carbolic acid to an ounce of rosewater and glycerin and use it. for removing fruit or vegetable stains from the hands. For the baggy appearance under the eye3 rub gently With the tips of the fingers dipped in alcohol. Afterward massage in the same way with cold cream. Baking soda gives instant relief to a burn or scald. Applied, either wet or dry, to the burned part immediately the sense of rolief is magical. It seems to draw out the heat and with it the pain. For hard-working persons, especially brain workers, an excellent health preserver is the habit of passing a half-hour lying prone in the middle of the day; best if combined with recreation and fresh air. Don't consider it an economy to put children's feet into last summer's outgrown stockings. Short feet in stockings may even do the foot an injury that will require years of expensive shoes to counteract. A dry shampoo Is made by scenting a pound of a finely ground corn meal with an ounce of powdered orris root. The mixture is scattered through the hair and thoroughly brushed out, bringing the oil and dust with it. Where one has a bad throat a soothing drink can be made by bringing a pint of barley water to a boil, then add one ounce of the best gum arabic and stir until dissolved. Strain and sweeten or not as desired. Take but a little at a time. It will stop a rasp ing cough. Soatnche-Kiubroiricretl Salt. The walking skirt of this pale blue linen suit is laid in wide side, plaits, stitched down flatly almost to the knees and finished around the bottom with a broad, tailor-stitched hem. The belted, Russian coat is of knee-length has seamless shoulders, cut-in-one bell sleeves extending to the elbow, and a front fastening beginning at the left Shoulder and running diagonally to the hem of the garment. The soutache braiding of self color is applied in military manner and outlines the lowcut neck, tho front edge of the coat and trims the bolt. The pale blue coarse straw hat hag a brim banded with black velvet, a blue tussah band about the crown and a blue "Chanticleer" aigrette. Wnlt I 'lmten I iik. Try this quick way of putting hooks and eyes on a waist: Sew the eyes on the left front the desired distance part, with the loops out far enough

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to make hooking easy, then baste the right front carefully over the left, lapping as much as may be desired; turn the waist just as it is, wrong side out. put a hook in every eye and sew them in position. An economical woman bought two sets of nice buttons that do for all he shirtwaists. They have shanks and are put into the button side of fresh waists by means of rings. Instead of buying cheap buttons for six waists she has these two very nice sets, which, she thought before she got this idea, were far beyond her means. $utt 'Gjia 'fahctes Woolen materials are of the coarsest weavea. Figured silks are vying with twotoned effects for street and house dresses. Collarettes are of lace tulle, handembroidered linen or figured net. Some have touches of black velvet in the form of tiny bows on the front. Cloth of gold and silver tissue comes again to a supple and glistening res cue when the dull rose and mahogany shades cry for a contrasting touch. Heavy lace incrusted with gems shows that the styles so popular in the winter have been recognized as worthy of repetition for spring evening gowns. Baby curls and ringlets have return ed to fashion's favor this season or we?.r with the sugar-loaf hat. These curls come over the ears and peep out prettily from under the quaint but be coming little hat without a brim. Morning blouses are particularly attractive if made of striped or dotted linen. The almost Inevitable frills on these models are of plain-colored linen, and thi3 addition brings the shirtwaist, or blouse into a closer harmony with the colored skirt. It Is almost trite to add that these models are collarless. Large flat hats have appeared with flowers in wreaths -encircling the low crowns. This fctyle is becoming to nine out of ten women, for it is undeniable that the long, sweeping lines of hats will add to the charm of the face beneath and they are rarely trying to the wearer on account of stiff or straight effects. , The jumper waist of marquisette or voile Is the "handiest thing ever" for the woman who has a good skirt of fine material and no waist to match. Make a Jumper of the same shade. It is made with. a round neck, half or long sleeves, and is worn over a white net w-aist. It does Lot have the appearance of a makeshift, and therein lies one of Its chief attractions. Turkish Wive. Ever since' last year, when sane Turkish ladies of high standing boldly discarded the veil on a few occasion?, women of the Turkish aristocracy have been permitted at court functions. Turkish ladies keep their own names when they marry and also hold their own fortunes, managing eir money affairs as they please. " Hy have all legal rights that the ..icu enjoy, and the husband's sanction, signature or approval is not needed. For 12 centuries Turkish women have been 'able to get divorce whenever serious trouble with lord and master arose. London Mall. Why Women Are Shoplifters. Prof. Muensterberg knows more about why most of us do things than we do ourselves, and we have to thank him for some interesting surprises we have enjoyed when he has explained our motives to us; so when he says "from a psychological viewpoint, ;ien become, shoplifters because they have a duller moral perception than -men and are lesrf likely to re strain the so-called "imitative im pulse," we must believe it without question at least, from the psycho logical viewpoint From the Indian apolis News. llouneboys. The increasing employment of men and boys for domestic work is point ed to by some people as a significant sign of the times. In London, the pa jmts of that town state, lads are be trained with conspicuous success do daily work in houses, and both as cooks and "house-maids" they leave the weaker sex far behind. Such, at least, is the testimony of the grateful housekeepers who employ them. Another snr on. Women. The Northwestern University professor who told a woman's clnh that women did not earn their living, and were unpiouuctive and expensive to society, received a 1 member of the sex upon whom he cast bis silly slur The tenuous theories of some college prqiessors are so far from fact as to cast doubt upon

their fitness to teach young men and women the first principles of civilization, let alone inspire in them the rudiments of sound citizenship. The woman who docs not earn her way is the rare exception. The millions of devoted mothers who train up 'hoys and girls into good Americans are the foundation of the nation. They earn their way in this world, and. God bless them, in' the world to come. There are far more useless, unproductive men than women. Hundreds of thousands of men fill our prisons and asylums. Other hundreds of thousands of men are engaged in enterprises injurious to their fellowmen and degrading to themselves. To class all women as burdens to man is not only silly; the author of such a proposition stamps himself as crassly Ignorant and illogical, little student and less thinker. Chicago Journal.

Wonld You De Thlnf Oranges lend pleasant aid to those who wish to grow thinner. The juice of at least two should be taken at every meal, and these must not be sweet ones. Oil with salad should be gfven up and lemon juice substituted for vinegar. Cream or sugar in coffee, and the coffee itself save at breakfast, must give place to sugarless and milkless weak tea. Grapes, peaches, melons, prunes and bananas are tabooed, as they are fleshproducers. No cereals, no hot bread save dry toast, no pork in any for-ai, no veal and no water wtih meals. Some physicians advocate copious draughts of skim milk for the safe roduction of flesh. They say thai If it be taken scientifically at and between meals it will possibly cause a patient to lose. Baths must be taken in cold water and a hard flesh brush must be plied . vigorously. N'evr Departure la Tunic. There is no end to the making of tunics, and a considerable amount of ingenuity Is being expended upon the invention of new ways to arrange these graceful overdresses. Scarfs that are wide . and long, made from mousseline or other soft materials, are treated as shown in our illustration. And are. Indeed, beautiful. They ar almost bordered with satin bands and edged with silk fringe. The above model Is ideal for a dinner gown. Leather Belts. To clean white leather belts rub the belt well with a thickish paste made of cream of tartar and cold water. Leave It for an hour. Then rub it with alum and fuller'g earth, mixed In equal parts. Next dry brush the belt with a clean, soft bnsh till all tho powder has been removed and then give it a final rub with some coarse oatmeal, to which a little dry whiting has been added. SraxuiiInK I'tioJ. In the way of seasonings, Worcestershire, garlic, summer savory and cayenne pepper may flourish up a dish that would be otherwise tasteless Hungarian paprika, which is very svvei.'t, and mild red pepper give a delicious fillip to omelettes, and tomato dishes, and Italian oil is far more delicate than the French article. Greasy Sink. When the sink becomes greasy put a little paraffin oil on a piece of flannel and rub the sink with it. It will a3ily remove all the grease. The smell of paraffin can be removed by washing with hot water and soap and then flushing with cold water. At the same time tins will also clean the pipes. ' lliiriilitK Soot front t'lilm iu-3'm. Old and scrap pieces of zinc should bo saved for burning the scot from chimneys and stovepipes. A little bit thrown on the fire will effectively clear the passages of soot. In 1 ron i iik I.nee. To obviate the unpleasant glaze that comes on black lace when it is ironed a paper should be spread between it and the iron.

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Charles F. Summis, aged 45, of Leesburg, who was taken to the hospital in Elkhart after being injured by a dynamite explosion while blasting stumps, died there. He left a widow. George, the 4-year-old son of Horace Bedford, owner of a printing house in Anderson, was fatally injured while playing when he rode down a stairway in a toy wagon. Three years ago the boy fell from a third-story window to a cement pavement, and was only slightly hurt. One year ago the child rode down a stairway in the same toy wagon but was not seriously injured. At a meeting of the congregation of the Friends' church in Muncie to Muncie to choose a successor to the Rev. Charles S. White, the pastor who has resigned to g6 to California, a call will be formally extended to the Rev. Mrs. Daisy Barr, now patsor of the Friends' church in Fairmount. Mrs. Darr has already resigned her Fairmount charge to accept the Muncie pulpit. A company of Indianapolis men have purchased, the 103 acres, comprising Spring Lake Park, five miles west of Greenfield, on the traction line, and propose to erect summer cottages and expend considerable money in. beautifying the place. The lake, at present, occupies three acres. The farm was purchased from C. E. Mathew, of St. Petersburg", Fla., formerly of Indianapolis. The Indiana Boys' School at Plaiafield Is in the throes of a typhoid fever epidemic, there being about fifty cases among the inmates and five among the officers of the institution. So far no deaths have resulted. Steam whistles in Plainfield have not blown for several days because of the serious condition of many of the patients. An extra force of nurses and physicians have been employed. So far no cause has been found for the out'reak of the disease, though a thorough investigation is being made. The old theory that a feather bed furnishes protection from lightning was completely knocked out iduring an electrical storm at Princeton, when a bolt Struck the home of John Chesser, a mile south of the city, passed into the house on. the telephone wire and tore all t,o pieces a wooden bedstead on which was a feather bed. The feathers and ticking were partly burned. Fortunately Mr. Chesser and his family had gone to a neighbor's to spend the night and thus escaped Injury. The house was considerably damaged. Realizing that death was near at hand, W. A. Jordan, of Blountsville, aged 85, arranged that his funeral service should be held in the Methodist church there, of which he had been a member for sixty-nine years, bequeathed $1,400 to the? church for the purpose of keeping in condition the graves in the churchyard, and then died. The little edifice was crowded with friends who came to attend the services, and the aged man's body was laid away in the little country cemetery, which will be kept beautiful for years because of his bequest Ernest Alyea, aged 35, charged with horse stealing, was brought to Laporte from Chicago by Sheriff Anstiss, having been . arrested there following a six months' search. The horse was recovered In January. Alyea pleaded not guilty. After his arrest it developed that Alyea may be the man that shot the chief of police in Kenosha, Wis., on July 4, last year. He was arrested there as a suspected horse thief and while being taken to Jail by the chief of police drew a revolver and shot the officer through the right breast and got away. Residents of Lawrenceport, seven miles east of Bedford, on White river, have had the time of their lives catching fish since, last week. Noticing that black suckers were shoaling, Charles B. Stewart, a young man of that place, unaided and with his naked hands, caught hundreds of them, which he afterwards sold for $50. It Is estimated that over three thousand pounds of fish were taken from the river at the old dam at that place in three days, some of which weighed twelve pounds. A large number of the fish were brought to Bedford and sold in the streets. Robert Squires, who recently moved from Anderson to a farm adjoining Marion, relates a remarkable story of egg incubation. A week before Mr. Squires was ready to move he set a black Minorka hen on fifteen eggs. Not desiring to leave the hen behind, he took her with the box in which she was setting and boarding an interurban car brought hen, eggs , and all a distance of thirty-five miles by traction car and then changed to a Marion street oar to get to his home. The hen remained on the nest with her changed surroundings and a few days, ago every one of the fifteen eggs hatched a chick. Owing to the scarcity of fish and the high price of meats Evansvllle commission men report that hotel and restaurant men now serve the whole frogs on their tables instead of the hind legs as heretofore. John Milthaler, a farmer living near Portland, has a hen that took under its wings a family of small kittens. The hen resists all efforts to 'remove the kittens from its nest, with the same spirit that might be expected were they a brood of chicks. The Rev. W. C. Aye, pastor of the M. E. Church at Wingate, killed a large blue herron, a rare bird in that part of the state. The bird measured five feet, five inches from tip to tip. Daniel Fry, living near Sullivan, has a freak egg almost perfect In shape and as large as a goose egg. Boing curious to know what was inside, he broke it open and found an egg within an egg. The outside egg contained two yolks and the inside one. The shells of both were hard and the inside egg was a little larger than a robin's egg. Mrs. John Dakins, 27, was burned to death at Newcartle when a can of oil exploded, enveloping her clothing in flames. Mrs. Alice Landis, of Middlebury, has in her librarj a copy of Lindley Murray's grammar, the pioneer American text book on language, issued more than one hundred years ago, and for half a ceneury the standard in the school', of England and America. It was used by her grandfather, Isaac Ileato;. an experienced teacher of many years in the days of the old sem- , lrry system of Indiana.

The little child of MnlSPd Irs. wflIiam Oliphant, of Westport," pulled a cloth from the dining table, upsetting a pot of scalding coffee on its face and breast. The chilJ will die. .. Mr. and Mrs. David Hockman, of Deer Creek Township, Miami County, have been married for more than seventyyears. Mr. Hockman Is 93 years old and his wife is three years his senior. His appetite for meat and lack of funds to purchase the food- he desired, prompted Otto Williams, a laborer of Franklin, to rob the smokehouse of Henry Murray, a farmer living north of there. Williams Is under arrest on a larceny charge, and has admitted his guilt. The first home-grown strawberries of the season were brought into the New Albany market last week and the first shipment was a case consigned to Indianapolis. This was earlier by a week than Floyd County berries have been marketed in many years. Growers report that prospects are ex-, cellent for a larger crop than for. several years. William Swalley, aged CO, an inmate of the Kosciusko County Infirmary, is dead. Swalley had been teasing a bull and caused it to become enraged. With lowered head the animal struck the man in the chest and knocked him to the ground, where it continued to gore him. Other inmates hurried to tho scene and drove the bull away, but not before Swalley was fatally hurt. He died of his injuries. Swalley cauie to the infirmary six years ago. The Common Council of Columbus has decided that that city will have a ksafe and sane Fourth of July this year. A city ordinance adopted in 1SC9, which provides that it shall be unlawful to discharge any kind of fireworks or explosives in any street, alley or any other public pUce,has been dug up and the police have already received instructions to enforce the ordinance. Dealers have been advised not to lay in a supply of fireworks and explosives. Joe Shrock and Joshua Simmons, aged S and 9 years, were seriously injured a few days ao. The boys were riding down the town hill in an old buggy without a tongue, and pretending they had an automobile. They were guiding the vehicle with a rope attached to the front axles and when the buggy was going at full speed the rope broke and the buggy turned over in a deep ditch. A shepherd dog belonging to Sampson David was caught by the wheels and killed. Louie and Temple Abernathy, aged 10 and 6, respectively, sons of a United States marshal, at Frederick, Okla., passed through Washington a few days ago, on their way to New York City to greet Colonel Theodore Roosevelt on his return from abroad. The juvenile travelers are making the trip on horseback and they attracted much attention. Their father has been with the former President on several of his hunting expeditions and was appointed to his present office by Colonel Roosevelt The lads have now been ou the way three weeks and are ahead of their schedule. Mrs. Z. H. Häuser, of Columbus, hu presented the city with a portrait of Smith Jones, first mayor of the city of Columbus, and In accepting the portrait the City Council has started a movement to collect the pictures of all the former mayors of that place. Mr. Jones, in addition to being the first mayor of Columbus after' it was incorporated as a city, was a degate to th State convention that resulted in the "new Constitution of 1S52." During tho .Civil War he was selected by the County Commissioners to handle and distribute the bounty money in Bartholomew County and such was his probity that he was not required to give bond, although he handled $130,546. Following the Civil War he was appointed collector of internal revenue for his district He died in 1878, aged 65 years. James Eason, aged 40, a farmer living near Hartsvllle Crossing, had a narrow escape from being killed by an infuriated bull. He entered the pasture where the bull was feeding, knowing that the animal had a mean disposition. The bull started toward him and Eason grabbed a club to use in self defense. . Fp several minutes the man and the bull fought and in one of the rushes Eason was pushed down and his ankle fractured. He tried to crawl to a fence, hoping tr be able to climb to the next field. As he was about to reach for the fence to drag himself over the bull made a vicious lunge at him and although he weighs 00 pounds Eason was tossed completely over the fence. This fractured another bone in the leg that was already disabled. Eason crawled a quarter of a mile before he found help. He is bruised from head to foot, but his injuries are not thought to be serious. Clark Wallace, aged 35 years, who has been VincenL.es agent for a sewing machine company, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. Dan Frederick, aged 00, committed suicide there in the same way. Farmers In the vicinity of Petersburg lately organized a mutual sheep insurance society, which they called the "dog fund," and the $300 in the treasury was wiped out in one fell swoop of sheep-killing dogs upon the flock of Grant Malotte. While playing a game of baseball Roy Boyer, aged 16, living at Howell, was struck In the face by a bat that a player accidentally let go. His nose was broken and he was otherwise injured. Daniel E. Storms, former Secretary of State of Indiana, and for many years prominent in Republican politics in this state, has taken out incorporation papers for the Sandusky Auto Parts and Truck Company with a $150,000 capital at Sandusky, Ohio. Mr. Storms is a resident of Jackson, Cal. While standing in a doorway of his home in Terre Haute, Everett Ferrell, a dairyman, was killed by lightning. E. A. Enos, of East Connersville, has engaged in mushroom faming. He has twenty beds, each six tv ten feet, all sown with the peculiar spawn from which the mushrooms spring. The little white points are bristling thickly through the loII, and a warm rain or a few warm days will bring the first harvest through in a few hours. Mr. Enos expects to gather two thousand poundj of mushrooms tV spring.