The Monmouth Inquirer (Freehold, N.J.)
June 4, 1908

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FREEHOLD. r The Belmont Hotel is beingp-paint Berry tieketsprinted at sh, 1908, in St. Peter's Church chapel, by Rev. Howard Ernest Thompson. The bride was attired in a blue tailor-made suit with leghorn hut trimmed to match. Mr. and Mrs. 0eorge Cottrell, of Free hold. stood up with the couple. They are boarding at Mrs. Ida Reichey’s on Center street. BRACE—HURLEY. Announcement has been made of the marriage of Herbert Brace, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brace of 944 Sunset avenue, Asbury Park, to Miss Ida Hurley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Hurley of Sixteenth avenue, Beltuar. The wedding ceremony was performed Sunday afternoon. May 24, by Rev. A. S. VanOrden, of Farming dalo, and a wedding repast was served at the bride’s parents’ home. The bride wore a blue chiffon princess gown and carried bridal roses. Mr. and Mrs. W. Worden announce the engagement of their daughter Juanita Delia to Mr. Herbert Hudson Parker, son of Mr. and Mre. John Parker, of Asbury Park. Invitations have been issued for the wedding! of Elizabeth Tilton, daughter of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Til ton, of Jacobstown to Edwin Joshua Bunting, of Crosswioks on Wednes day, June 10 at Jacobstown. OBITUARY. MRS. HULDAH KLY. wife of William Ely, of Ely, died Sat* 'irdnv. May 30th, 1908, aged 06 years. Besides her hushaod she leaves a son, and daughters Mrs. Charles Daven port, Mrs. Lungren aud Mrs. Charles DeBow. of Asburv Park. Her funeral took place at 1 o’clock at the house aud 2 o'clock at the Per* rineville Presbyterian ohurch yester day (Wednesday). Rev. H. K. Pul ton officiating Interment was in the Perrine ville cemetery. WILLIAM MCDERMOTT, 9R., died at his late residence on Court street, Freehold, 10.30 Sunday even ing, May 31st, 1909, aged 78 years. Mr. McDermott was the son of the late Miles and Elizabeth McDermott, and was born on the homestead farm at Rue’s Corner, near Tennent, on Nov. 23d, 1833. Mr. McDermott’s ancestry iu Monmouth dates to the Revolu tion, when Wm. McDermott was im pressed into the British army while residing in the North of Ireland, be ing of Scotch-Irish desoent, and com ing to America in the command of Col. Henry Monokton, who was killed at the Battle of Monmouth and sleeps the sleep of the fallen brave at Ten nent cemetery. Shortly after reach ing America he determined to sup port the cause of the colonies and re fused longer to bear British arms, though to the end of his days he re tained an affectionate regard for his oid oommauder. His son. Miles Mc Dermott, was the father of deceased and grand-father of County Clerk Joseph McDermott. Wm. McDer mott. the Revolutionary soldier mar ried Mary Yetman, and both are bur ied at Tennent. Wm. McDermott, the deceased, re moved with his family near Eng lishtown, to the farm now occupied by Edwin C. Sloat, and later lived for two years on the Bowue Reid farm at Milhurst. He married Miss Lydia E, Thompson, of Milhurst, of which un ion he leaves the following ohildren; Wm. McDermott, Jr., of Freehold; Frank P. McDermott, of Jersey City; County Clerk Joseph McDermott, of Freehold; Charles McDermott, Mrs. Win. Wheeler, of Philadelphia, Pa.; and Mrs. Norman W. Foster, of Trenton. A sad accident happeued to Mrs. McDermott when one morn ing in 1879 when on her way to the train to visit her son she was struck by a locomotive at the Main street crossing and instautlv killed. Mr. McDermott married Mrs. Anna B. Laird, who died iu the Long Branch Hospital after an operation. He was then united in marriage to Miss Eliz abeth Rock, of Springfield, Mass., who survives him, There were no etmdivu .ruuj, tW Usi two Mr. McDermott came to Freehold as a carpenter and builder in 1889 aud also engaged in the real estate and insurance business. He built a number of houses in Freehold. In 1872 he formed a part nership with Henry J. Mount, under tlie firm name of McDermott Mount which continued up to two years ago when Mr. McDermott’s failing health compelled him to relinquish business cares. In 1872 he also form ed a partnership witli the late Robert Lippincott. in the sash, blind and planing business and they erected the building iu the rear of the crystal palace building on South street as their mill. The building is now oc cupied bv Win. McDermott, Jr. Mr. McDermott was one of the early members of Teuneut Lodge, No. 09, K of P,. and for a number of years was their Master of Exchequer, He was also for many years an offi cer and member of Monmouth Lodge No. 25, I. U. O. F., of Freehold, and until it went out of existence. Mr. McDermott upon the death of George C. Hulett, President of the Freehold Mutual Loan Association, wasjpromoted to its Presidency, hav ing been Vice President since its or ganization iu 1809, which position he continued to hold until two years ago when he resigned. He was also Assistant Commission er of the town of Freehold from 1889 to 1894. aud during that period the water and sewer works were built. In politics Mr. McDermott was a staunch Republican. He also-served as Elder of the Free, hold Presbyterian church fora num ber of years. Mr. McDermott was of unimpeach able honesty and his many years of useful actively in busiuess aud social duties will long be remembered with affectionate regard. His funeral was held on Tuesday at his late residence, Court street, at 2 P. M.. aud was solernu and im pressive. The soriptures were read by Rev. A. W. Remington, pastor of the Freehold Presbyterian church, and interment was at Maplewood cemetery. The public offices, stores and hotels were closed during the service. Has a Freak Chicken Mrs. George C. Hulett, of Lower Squankuui. has a chicken, hatched last week, that is possessed of four perfectly formed legs, and three wings and other freak markings. Needless to say this chicken is receiving es pecial care and as yet appears health ful. At a meeting of the supervising principals of Middlesex oouuty at New Brunswick, County Superinten dent Willis declared that he found the best janitor in the county to be a woman. She is Mrs. Emil Liuke, of the Ernston school, Sayreville, This school the superintendent thought to be the oleanest in the county.

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PAGE 3. glumnoutb Inquirer FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY. THURSDAY, JUNE 4. 1908. MAXCY APPLEGATE Editor and Proprietor.

Published at the lfiQOIRER BUILDING, 20 W. MAIN STREET. Opposite First National Ba nk. TELEPHONE GALL 30. Advertising Rates on application. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year. Six Months. Inree Months.3’' Invariably in advanee Single Copies, 3 Cents, PRISON MAY BE SOON OVERCROWEO' AGAIN The popu.atlon of the state prison is increasing so fast that is feared the institution Will soon be overcrowded again, Even with the new wing, which contains 350 cells, some of the larger cells contain two convicts. Nearlv all of the new convicts re ceived lately are long term men and few are being discharged. One of tile reasons for the increase is the fact that the law recently passed required all convicts above 26 years of age and all second termers be sent to prison instead of to the Rahway reforma ^Most of the men received at the prison at the presenttime are for eigners. In May 1907, there were 1.229 convicts in the prison, while this year there are 1,315. _ _ Acting Centre Keeper Frank D. Crouse, who has been at the prison for twenty years, says that during that time the population has increas ed from over 800 to the present total CLARKSBURG. Our school closed on Friday, May 29th and held their annual commence ment exercises at the Perriueville, Preebyt.eriau church, that afternoon. George J. Ely is visiting each tax payer on official duty. Forman Hendrickson, of Allen town, was a recent caller. Samuel Gorden, of near Hightstowu was a recent caller. Prof. E. G. Fountain and wife and Mrs. Charles Hornor were recent visi tors to Hightstowu. Win. Wideman, of Vardville, was a recent caller. James Allen, of Perrineville, was a recent visitor. John W. Thompson, of Trenton and James Riley, of;New Sharon, were re cent visitors. Robert J. Woodward, of Cream Ridge, Barleay P. Malsburv, of Im laystown, M. W, Hargrove, of Brown’s Mills, and aa agent of the Bell Telephone Company were here on business recently. Frank G. Strahan and sister Miss Elizabeth, visited relatives at Allen town recently. Frank B. Matthews, of Cassviile, was a recent caller. Morgan Hulse, of Lakewood, agent for the S. P. C. A., was in town recently. Sarah McDermott also finished in the Grammar grade examination last week. Henry Phifer and wife, of Van Hiseville, were guests of Charles Hor nor and wife and Prof. E. G. Foun tain and wife. Elbert H. Goddard, of near Lake wood. recently visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin C. Goddard. Allen Aumaok, of Cassviile, was a recent caller here, Mrs. R. G. Strahan has been visit ing her daughter. Mrs. Frank Allen at pigbtstown. Bert Lanning, ot Hightstown, was a recent visitor. Mrs. M. J. DeBow, of near Holme sou, was the guest of Miss Annie Chambers last week. Benj. K. Clayton spent Thursday in Trenton. His daughter. Miss Pearl, was a recent visitor to Perriue ville. Arthur Messier, of Philadelphia was a recent visitor. To pat the brake on the wagon go- i inr down hill is a help to the horse, when the wagon is heavily loaded. But. what driver would think of ap nlving the brake to a loaded wagon going up hill? If he did, his sensible horse would probably balk. Many a man is in the condition of pulling a load up hill with the brake set against him. When his stomach is out of or- i der, and the allied organs of digestion j and nutrition impaired in their func- tions, a friction is set up which has to j be overcome in addition to the perfor mance of daily duties. A foul stomach makes a foggy brain, and the man with a disordered stomach has often to grope his way through the day’s bust-1 ness like a man in a fog. He forgets j appointments. Problems seem pre sented to his mind "wrong end to. This condition is entirely remedied by the use of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It puts the stomach and digestive and nutritive system into a condition of perfect health, and gives a dear brain, a steady hand and a light step for the day’s duties. Dr. Pierce’s medicines do not contain al cobol or other injurious ingredients; they are not “patient medicines be cause their ingredients are printed on the label of each bottle. Fine Job Printing at the Mon month Inquirer Office. CONGRESS ADJOURNS. Ending of La Follette's Filibuster Marks Close of Session. Washington, June 3.—After the fili buster on the financial bill collapsed the conference report was adopted by a vote of 43 to 22, the remaining ap propriation bills were finally passed, as was the government liability bill, and the first session of Ute Sixtieth congress adjourned without day. The collapse of the great filibuster against the adoption of the Aldrfch Vreeland currency bill enabled Senator Aldrich to get a vote. The conference report was adopted, 43 to 22. Five Re publicans, Borah, Bourne, Brown, Hey 1 burn nnd La Foilette, voted with sev enteeu Democrats to make the twenty two. No Democrat went on record for the mi President Roosevelt signed 1 the measure. T. There was a dramatic finish to the theatrical filibuster. Senator Stone left the chamber while the blind Sena tor gofe was speaking. He had not returned when Gore finisHW, although he had expected to be back io Lake up the time killing. Sfehator La Foilette, who had been told that he might take eight hours rest and that the floor would be kept, had not returned, being exhausted by his eighteen hours speech, which broke all congressional records. The currency commission, consisting of nine senators and nine representa tives, appointed by Vice President Fairbanks and Speaker Cannon under the terms of the Aldrich-Vreeland bill held its first meeting, and, while the meeting was only for the purpose of organization, there was a general dis cussion of plans, and it can be stated that if tbe outline submitted by Sena tor Aldrich is perfected by the work of the commission the country will be J given the benefit of such a thorough investigation and complete an exposi- I tion of currency and banking as it has never before received. Must Not Ride on Car Platform. St. Paul, Minn., .Tune 3.—The United States circuit court of appeals handed down a decision holding that railroad passengers who ride on tlie platform of a moving train are precluded from collecting damages for injuries result ing from their action. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of SHERIFF’S SALE.—By virtue of a writ of fi. fa. to me directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery of the state of New Jersey will be exposed to sale at public vendue, on MONDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF JULY, 1908, between the hours of 12 o’clock and 5 o’clock, (at 2 o'clock) in the afternoon of said day, at the Court House, Freehold, in the township of Free hold, county of Monmouth, New Jersey. All tl*at ceT tain Jot.Pf land aud premises, here inafter particularly described, situate, lying aud being in the township of Atlantic, in tlie County of Momfiouth and State of New Jersey, and being lot No. 6 of Map and survey of tlie wood la a of John W. Conover, deceased, made Dec. 14th, 1870, and being a part of the premises conveyed to said Daniel P. Schanck by deed from Thomas C. Ely and wife, dated March 24, A. D., 1873, and recorded in Monmouth Co. Clerk’sOfnce in Kook 24S of Deeds, folio 324, &c. Beginning at a stake in the intersection of the road leading from Barrentown to Hillsdale, with the road from Hillsdale to Clover Hill, and running thence as the needle pointed Decem ber 14, 1S70, (1) south seventy-four degrees and fifty-five minutes east along the late mentioned road, five chains, and four links to the north west corner of Patrick Cunniffs lot (being lot No. 7 of said survey); thence (2) south twenty two degrees and fifteen minutes, east along said Cunniff s lots one chain and eighty-four links to the northwest corner of lot No. 5; thence (3) south sixty-seven degrees and forty five minutes west four chains along lot No. 5, i to the north-west corner thereof in the first be fore mentioned road; thence (4) along said road, north twenty-two degrees and fifteen minutes west four chains aud ninety links to tlie place ot beginning, containing one acre and thirty five hundredths of an acre, strict measure. Seized as the property of Bridget Fitzpatrick et als, taken in execution at the suit of John Fitzpatrick, and to be sold by C. ASA FRANCIS, Sheriff. Dated Jnne 1st, 190S. Marion Jones, Sol’rs. ($9.00) NEWS NOTES. Walter Johnson, of Prospertown, caught a pike which weighed seven pounds. VVilliam D. Hartshorn, of Cooks town, caught a pike in the Haiiche Jliebe pond that weighed 4£ pounds. Clarkson F. Lane, of Auditor Mour* ers office, Long Branch, fell from his bicycle on Saturday and wrenched his shoulder. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Van Braekle, of Long Branch, will go to Denver. Colo., with their son, who is in ill-health. They will return in September. Miss Reba E. Hunt, of Davis, was given a birthday party on Mouday evening, May 25th. The house was beautifully decorated in pink and white. She received about 80 post cards. Be sure and get the comic ahd mag azine pages with this issue of Thk In quirer. More proof that Lydia E. Plnk hAm’s Vegetable Compound saves woman from surgical operations. Mrs. 8. A. Williams, of Gardiner, Maine, writes: I wm a great sufferer from female troubles, and Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table Compound restored me to health j in three mouths, alter my physician declared that an operation was abso lutely necessary.” Mrs. Alvina Sperling, of 154 Cley-' bourne Ave., Chicago, 111., writes: “I suffered from female troubles, a tumor and much inflammation. Two of the best doctors in Chicago decided that an operation was necessary to save my life. Lydia E. Pinkham’a Vegetable Compound entirely cured me without I an operation.” FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration. Why don’t you try it Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. ___{ FOR AGENTS A SUCCESS THE OLD WORLD AND ITS WAYS —BY— WM. JENNINGS BRYAN 576 Imperial Octavo Pages. 251 Superb En graving? from photographs taken by Col. Bryan. I Recounts his trip around the world and’his I visits to all nations. Greatest book of travel ever written. Most successful book of this gen eration. 41,000 called for in 4 month*. Write us for sample reports of first 100 agents employed. The people buy it eagerly. The agent's harvest. On Hit B^KJEE.—Send fifty cents to cover cost of mailing and handling. Address THE THOMPSON PUBLISHING CO., St Louis -i SALE BILLS WITH C U T S AT THE Inquirer Office. 18 W. Main Street f V i «ub »1 lil IBf *M ill fA1 y»JB bL^J 11 The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and “Just-as-good” are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Fneml. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of f Tne Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years, .rMTtiiR -.OWMiy r* MURRAY RCWVCOH *'TV. EDWIN J. HADLEY'S MOVING PICTURE EXHIBITION .WITH. ILLUSTRATED SONGS, Entirely new and pleasing program, instructive and funny. Come and enjcy an evening of pleasure. WEDNESDAY EY’NG, JUNE 10, at Opera House t BENEFIT FREEHOLD M. E. SUNDAY SCHOOL. Reserved seat tickets now on sale at M cCheaney’s stor>. The Inquirer is only $1 a year. F. D. BENNETT, THE HATTER. All the Newest Styles in SOFT HATS, DERBIES CAPS. SPECIAL SHIRTS AT 50 CENTS Good Goods. Made Good

NECK WEAR, COEEARS, CUFFS GEOVES, HAND KERCHIEFS AND UMBREEEAS, -1—— F. D. BENNETT, Next to IstNat’l Bank, Freehold, New Jersey. BDIflD Probably not, but why run the risk of seriously injuring your eyes by the use of incorrectly fitted glasses when you can have your eyes skillfully ex amined by 5TILE5 CO Philadelphia Eye Specialist. NEXT VISIT WILL BE WEDNESDAY JUNE 18th, 1908 Free examination at the American Hotel. HOURS. 10 a. m to 4. p. m. Proposals for Erecting a High School Building at Freehold, New Jersey. The Eoard ot Education of the Town of Free hold, in the County'of Monmouth, in the State of New Jersey, is about to erect a High School Building in said town and invites bida for each branch of the work separately. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of Alex L. Moreau, Transcript Building, Sonth St. Freehold. N. J., ana obtained of War ren H. Conover, architect, 232 West 40th St., N. Y. City, upon the deposit oi five dollars, which amount will be refunded when plans and spec ifications are returned. All bids must be sealed and filed with the undersigned, on or before 7 o’clock p. m., Mon day, June 15th, 1905. The right is expressly reserved to reject any and all bids. J. W. S. CAMPBELL. President of the Board of Education of the Town may28-3t of Freehold, N. i.ET ME KILL THOSE DEADLY DISEASE GERMS BEFORE THEY KILL YOU I Will Give a Course of Treatment Absolutely Free to Any Sufferer from Chronic or Other Diseases I PUT OXYGEN INTO YOUR STOMACH To Purify the Blood and Destroy the Germs of Disease That Prey Upon Life. I Put Artificial Nerve Force Into the Nerves and Brain to Give Strength and Power I HAVE CURED WHERE OTHERS FAILED A Letter Dropped in the Mall Box To-day Brings You This Wonderful Free Course of Treatment To-morrow. It is Truly Astonishing How Quickly and Surely This Remarkable Treatment Will Overcome Deep Seated Kidney, Liver, Stomach and Lung Trouble and Other Dangerous Diseases. Let Me Give You the Proof Free My experience in the treatment of Chronic diseases has been extensive and ▼aried. I have been in general practice since 1880, a U. S. Pension Examiner for a number of years; Health Officer and member of Municipal Board of Health and President of County Medical Society. My treatment is not a patent medicine, nor a cure-all, but it is a treatment that will be prescribed especially for your par ticular case after a careful diagnosis of your condition. True, it will contain oxygen to kill dead ly germs that infest your blood and tis sues. It gives vitality to the red blood corpuscles, and fills you with vim and vigor, but it is death to bacteria and dis ease germs. My treatment will contain artificial nerve force, which is the nearest approach to natural living nerve force that ever has been discovered. It is truly marvel ous how this artificial nerve force takes the place of the natural nerve force, and Sives you wonderful strength and power. [y treatment will also contain special remedies carefully prescribed to suit your particular condition. In my varied experience in treating chronic diseases I have had every oppor tunity to study various methods and kinds of treatment, and I can honestly and con scientiously tell you that I have never seen any treatment which I believe com pares with the treatment which I am in position to offer you. I know this is a strong statement, but I do not feel that it Is one word stronger than the absolute truth. Mrs. N. W. Bowden, of Newburn, N. C.. says: “One year ago I was In a dying condition. Three doctors had given me up to die. I tried Force of Life, and to-day I am a well woman. I thank God for the day that treatment was sent to me.’ is also a letter from Mrs. Hannah Peters, of Harrisburg, Pa. Yon may read it for yourself. Mrs. Peters says; “I thank our Heavenly Father for guiding me to you, and for the good health you have restored to me. I would have been in my grave had it not been for you. Your treatment has certainly cured me completely.” Then take the case of M. B. Hyatt. Here was a man who had gone from doctor to doctor; finally he decided to try Force of Life. United States Com missioner Ridgeway, who spent over three months investigating Force of Life treat ment, says in regard to Mr. Hyatt that his ease showed an instance of remark able recovery—“Raised, as it were, from the grave." I do not ask yon to send me one cent of money; merely write me giving your name and address, and stating the leading symptoms of your trouble, and your case will be diagnosed and I will prescribe for you a special course of treatment. I will send you this course of treatment without one cent of pay. There are absolutely no conditions attached to this offer. If your letter is received to-day, your treatment will be sent to-morrow. It will cost a great deal of money to give these free courses of treatment, but 1 want to prove to the sick and afflicted in every city and locality in this country that at last I have a treatment which is abso lutely sure and certain in its effects. No matter what your disease; no matter what treatment you have tried, I want you to write to me. If I think that I cannot cure you, I will frankly tell you bo, bat do not hesitate because your case has been pronounced Incurable. If you wish to try my free course of treatment, I advise you to sit down and write me to-day. Address your letter to G. E. COOT ANT M. D., Suite Syracuse, N. Y.

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PAGE 3. Pimmout| ^inquirer FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY. THURSDAY, JUNE 4. 1908. MAXCY APPLEGATE Editor and Proprietor. Published at the INQUIRER BUILDING, 30 W. MAIN STREET, Opposite First National Bank. TELEPHONE CALL 30. Advertising Rates on application. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year..K.*'’22 Six Months.*2 Inree Months.a" Invariably In advance Single Copies, 3 Cents. A BURMESE RAT TRAP. The Rodents Will Eagerly Enter It and Cannot Get Out. Rats may readily be induced to jump or drop into any receptacle, especially If it affords them adequate conceal ment, and they do this without one lin gering suspicion of their inability to reach the only existing outlet when the time for retreat approaches. Thus traps on this principle may readily be designed and are obviously preferable to our rat traps where the 1 animats are numerous. In Burma, where the rats are a per fect pest, they use a Jar trap, which is thus described by a traveler: “The common Pegu jar I used was about one and a half or two feet deep and fourteen or fifteen inches broad, and a hole was punched in the shoulder just large enough for a rat to enter. ‘There was about six or seven inches of paddy (rice in husk) in the jar, which was then buried to within about eight inches of the top. The mouth of the Jar was then closed with a board and a stone. “A quantity of old timber joists and straw were in the outhouse and no end of rat holes everywhere around." With this contrivance he caught sev enty-two rats in one night. The rats can readily enter, but they cannot climb the smooth sides of the jar to escape.—London Family Herald. A FIREPROOF TREE. The Chaparro, Ona of South Amarica’s Natural Curiosities. On the vast plains of Colombia and the north of South America, called sa vannas, which are parched with beat except during the rainy season, there is one of the greatest of natural curi osities, a tree called the chaparro, which is fireproof. It is the custom of the Colombian herdsmen to clear the ground by means of fire for the new vegetation, which springs up so luxuriantly in these regions after the rainy season. But not even the intense heat of a prairie fire affects the chaparro tree. It survives the flames to afford a wel come shade in an otherwise treeless country. It is a small tree, seldom growing to more than twenty feet in height, with a girth of about three feet. It owes its curious immunity from fire to the nature of its hard, thick bark. The bark lies on the trunk in loose layers, which do not readily conduct heat to the more delicate parts of the structure. The natives believe that this tree grows only where gold is abundant la the soil below, and it certainly is com mon in auriferous districts.—Westmin ster Gazette. Falsa Hair. False hair was first regularly worn in England by Queen Elizabeth, who had upward of fifty wigs of different kinds for her private use. After her death a few women adopted the French fashion of wearing wigs, but it was not until the restoration that wigs, or, more correctly speaking, peri wigs, came to be extensively worn by the sterner sex. These were intro duced in the court of Louis XIV., where a natural head of hair was not considered sufficiently luxuriant for the artificial tastes of the times. The term “periwig” is a corruption of the French perruque. Wigs were original ly adopted not as a remedy for bald ness, but in the interest of personal cleanliness. The laws of ancient Egypt compelled all males to shave the head and beard. This explains why turbans were not worn by the Egyptians, the bushy artificial hair being regarded as a sufficient protection against the heat of the sun. The Romans, on the con trary, wore wigs because they were naturally bald.—St Louis Republic. What Displeased Him. Two hunters were making their way across a lush meadow after a rain. The ground was moist and soggy, but their feet by quick stepping could be prevented from sinking more than an kle deep. Suddenly the one in advance disap peared up to his neck in a narrow stream that, owing to the luxuriant growth on the bank, he had observed only as he stepped into it. With difU culty he pulled himself out and began wringing the water from his garments. “Well, darn a country,” he remarked, with feeling, "where they set their creeks up edgewise and hide ’em in the grass.”—Philadelphia Ledger. Cant Afford Him Now. Lily Bell—No, Rufus, Ah cain’t mar ry yo’ Jest yet awhile. Y’U hab to wait Rufus—Why for mus’ I wait, Lily Bell? Lily Bell—’Cause three of the families mammy washes for done quit her, an’ now she sca’cely makes ’nough to support me an’ Daw.—Judge. Deacon uriah partridge,| long, lank and dignified, squat ted like a half fed turkey gob bler on a limb In Miss Cullen’s back yard, holding up the dangling skirts of his Prince Albert with his left hand and shaking his right fist spite-' fully at Miss Cullen's spotted bull ter rier, crouched threateningly at the foot of the tree and eying him with calm and patient persistence. Uncle Simeon Yates peeked over the picket fence, his smooth, rotund face looking like the full moon just rising above the horizon line, the tears coursing down his cheeks, his mouth preoccupied with an aggravating grin and his fat sides shaking like a cup of Jelly in an earth quake. “What In the world,” snorted Sim eon, ripping a paling off the fence In the excessiveness of his hilarity— “what In the world, deacon, are you doin’ up In Miss Cullen’s apple tree?” “Now, Brother Yates,” replied the deacon soberly, his wrinkled forehead oozing Ice water and his right hand grabbing desperately at a neighboring limb, “I Just dumb up here to see If Miss Cullen’s trees had survived the winter, and the dog”— But Simeon in terrupted. “Who’d ’a’ thought,’ he mused aloud, pulling out his handkerchief and dry ing his eyes—“who’d ’a’ thought Miss Cullen’s bull terrier would have devel oped into a bird dog? But If he hasn’t got a partridge treed this blessed min ute I’ll—I’ll”— He nearly pulled the fence up by the roots. me ueacuu s ire k iiiuhu. i mulct right!” he roared. “Stand there like a grlnnln’ old hyena and laugh! Didn’t you ever see a man In a tree before? Don’t you know when you behold a feller critter In distress? Why don't you climb over the fence and drive away that fool dog? D’ye want to see me killed right before your very eyes?” “But it Isn’t my dog,” tittered Sim eon. "It's Miss Cullen's, and It’s In Miss Cullen’s own lot.” “I tell you I can’t hang on much longer,” whined the deacon. “I’ve been here for an hour. I’ve got blisters all over me.” “Well,” replied Simeon, “reckon I’d better go and tell Miss Cullen”— “No! Don’t you do it!” yelled the deacon, blushing scarlet. “Don’t ye dare do it! 1 don’t want you to tell her. I don’t want her to know.” Simeon ripped another paling off the fence. His eyes were dancing as If they were tickled to death. “Why don’t ye drop on the dog’s back and crack his spine?” he suggest ed. “Why don’t ye glare at him with burnin’ Indignation and scorch his hide off?” “You’re an insultin’ old Wretch,” cried the deacon angrily, “a jlbberin’ ldjit that don’t know no better than to stand there and laugh the palin’s off of a poor, lone woman’s fence!” He turned to shake his fist, but lost his balance and fell. Desperately he clutched at a limb and pulled himself up again out of the very teeth of the growling terrier. Then he glanced vin dictively toward Simeon, but Simeon was moving away. “Hey, Brother Yates!” he yelled de U IIIIAvtJ Jl V/ ViVj SQUATTED DIKE A HALF FED TURKEY GOBBLER. spalrlngly. “Come back, please come back, Brother Yates!” “I ain’t used to bein’ addressed in such endearin’ terms, deacon,” replied Simeon, “and I thought mebby my room was better than my company.” "No, no,” vociferated the deacon anx iously. “I didn’t mean what I said. I was hasty. I am sorry, Brother Yates. Please don’t go away and leave me In this tree!” Simeon rested his arms on top of the pickets and gazed at him In pensive sympathy. "Well, Brother Partridge,” he replied solennfly, “If I can be any comfort to ye In your last moments I allow It’s my Christian duty to re main.” “If you’re goln’ to do anything,” gasped the other, exasperated by Sime on's deliberate slowness, “for God’s take do It quick! This limb Is crack in’.” “I might turn In a Are alarm,” sug gested Simeon calmly. “Mebby If we had the book and ladder truck”— “NoP’ ejaculated the deacon. “For goodness' sake, please don't do that! I don’t want everybody In town to know. I want to keep It quiet. They wouldn’t understand.” “Well, then,” declared Simeon doubt fully, “there be only one more hope for ye, Brother Partridge—if you had a balloon.” “O Lord!” moaned the deacon. “Can’t ye quit actin’ the fool, Brother Tates? Can’t ye suggest somethin’ reasonable?” Exasperated beyond endurance. Par tridge shook his fist at Simeon. Crack! Bough, deacon, Prince Albert and plug hat struck the ground In a confused heap. There was a terrified scrambling, a muffled growl. Then something long and lank, with flowing hair and pro truding eyes, dashed straight for Uncle Simeon. Crash! A section of the pal ing fence gave way, and up the street the deacon dashed, pale of countenance, bare of head, Miss Cullen’s bull terrier clinging grimly to his coattail and flap “POOH, POOH, POOH 1 HB POPPED. ping from side to side like a disabled rudder. “Go It, deacon! Go It, dog!” yelled Uncle Simeon, jumping up and down and swinging his old felt hat. “Go it, blame ye, go It!” Uncle Simeon leaned against the rem nant of the fence and shook it till It squeaked. He held his two pudgy hands against his ample sides and rolled his eyes in misery. “Won’t somebody please come and make me stop laughin’?” he yelled. “If they don’t I’m gotn’ to die. The dea con—the dog! I’ll blow up and bust. I can’t never live long enough to get through laughin'. They’ll have to post pone my funeral till I stop laughin’. I never knowed anybody could move their legs as fast as the deacon did. I—I—he—he!” His strength gave out, and he sank, a gurgling heap, upon the sidewalk. When finally he arose the dog was crawling under the fence, a ragged piece of black cloth in his jaws. At sight of It Simeon was thrown into an other spasm of mirth, from which he had not entirely recovered when he reached Miss Cullen’s door. His knock was answered by the lady In person. She was of uncertain age, Inclined to be angular and decidedly deaf. “Good afternoon, Miss Cullen!” shout ed Simeon. "I was wonderin’ have you seen Deacon Partridge today, mum?” Miss Cullen’s brow darkened. "No, I haven’t,” she said. “He promised to help me beat a carpet, but he hasn’t come.” “Well, mum,” giggled Simeon, “If you’ll call your dog I believe you’ll se cure circumstantial evidence of the deacon’s good Intentions.” But Miss Cullen’s deafness prevented her catching the drift of the remark. “Anyway,” she replied, aggrieved, “It seems to me that if a man won’t keep his promise to a woman before he mar ries her he won’t do It afterward.” "That S 80, mum, answereu Diiurau. “But If you’ll let me help you I’ll be glad to do It. I’ve Just got to beat a carpet or somethin’ to keep my mind off that man’s sprintin’ abilities or I’ll be a physical wreck.” “Then come right In, Mr. Yates,” she said, beaming smilingly upon him. “I appreciate your kindness very much.” "Don't mention It, mum,” gurgled Simeon. “Now, If you’ll just show me”— “Well, first,” she said, gazing into his eyes affectionately, "there’s a feather bed upstairs, if you’ll throw It out the winder for me.” Up the steps went Simeon, but when he reached the top he heard some one knocking on the front door. Glancing out the window, he saw Deacon Par tridge on the stoop below gazing un easily about and acting more nervous than otherwise. Catching up the feather bed, Simeon pushed it through the opening and chuckled to-himself as he saw it fall squarely upon the deacon’s head and bear him to the ground. In nnother instant a heavy mattress had follow ed it. “Now, Miss Cullen,” observed Sime on when he had gone downstairs again and opened the door, “if you’ll come and sit on the stoop and rest, mum, I’ll”— He noticed with satisfaction that something was wriggling desper ately under the feathers. “Oh, you are so considerate, Mr. Yates,” chirrui>ed Miss Cullen, follow ing him out of doors. “Some men are so thoughtless of others’ comfort. Now; do you know,” she added, setting herself on a step with her back toward the bedclothes, “I believe that the deacon wouldn’t care how hard his wife worked Just so he had good clothes to wear and plenty of nice things to eat” The feather bed was moved convulsively. “Well, Miss Cullen,” began Simeon, "I’ve always thought that If I had a wife I’d treat her like a wife ought to be treated.” JMiss Cullen coughed softly and drop ped her eyes. “Mr. Yates,” she asked presently, glancing at him bashfully, "why don’t you get married?” “If I thought I could get the right kind of a woman,” Simeon stammered, “a woman like you, now”— The bed and mattress fairly rose In the air. Simeon turned his head and coughed violently. “Oh, Mr. Yates,” broke In Miss Cul len, blushing becomingly, “If I thought that you would have—that I would make you a good wife She dropped her sparkling eyes groundward. The feather bed shook with renewed en ergy. “But I thought you said that you and the deacon”— began Simeon. “Oh, no!” Miss Cullen interrupted. “I only meant that the deacon wanted to marry me. Why, Mr. Yates, you've no idee how that persistin' old hypo crite has pestered me.” The betiding experienced a sudden terrific upheaval. Simeon acted as if he were going to explode. "Why, if 1 had let him I honestly believe he would have got down on his knees. 1 know I ain’t as young as 1 once was, but I reckon I know a man when I see one. Now, you, Simeon”— Again she glanced at him shyly. “Well, then,” said Simeon, his eyes twinkling, “if I should ask you to mar ry me would you promise to”— “O-h, Simeon!” blushed Miss Cullen softly. "I—I—yes, I believe 1 would, Simeon.” “Would you promise,” continued Sim eon, pinching himself to keep from laughing aloud when he saw something under the feather bed behaving scan dalously—“would you promise to sick your dog on that old Idjlt of a Dea con Partridge if he hangs around here any more?” mu suuuer miu ue u Llurt'U muse words than from the midst of that pile of household necessities there came the visible indications of a terrific storm, followed by the subdued but unmistakable sound of ripping cloth, and the next second feather bed, mat tress and deacon arose in concert, and there, in the astonished presence of Miss Cullen, stood Partridge, his arms and legs tangled in the environments of blue striped tickiug and his head and shoulders covered with a speckled coating of downy feathers. Feathers protruded from his eyes; feathers vi brated on the end of his nose; feath ers waved majestically from the tips of his ears. He couldn’t see or hear or speak for feathers. He could scarce ly breathe for feathers. “Pooh, pooh, pooh!” he puffed, blow- j ing great bunches of feathers from his mouth. “Ahchoo! Ahehe-oo!" he sneezed. The tears were running down his face, making the feathers stick the closer to his scarlet cheeks. Miss Cullen sprang to her feet, press ed her trembling hands to her eyes and shrieked. “Well, well!” said Simeon, regarding him with overmastering hilarity. “Well, well, this is the first time I ever see a partridge runnin’ around half picked. Say, why don’t you go out be hind the barn and singe yourself?” The deacon could not speak. He could not do anything but open and shut his mouth like a chicken with the gapes and go “Cut, cut, cut!” “Why, he thinks he’s an old settin’ hen!” exclaimed Simeon, eying him wonderlngly. “Shouldn’t wonder but he’ll be a-scratchin’ up your flow’er bed next, Miss Cullen. Say,” he added to the perspiring deacon, “why don’t you fly up in a tree and go to roost again “I—I didn’t come here to be laughed at,” whimpered Partridge, extricating himself from the ticking and nearly crying with indignation. “I came here to call on Miss Cullen.” “Huh!” replied Simeon, pressing his hands against his quivering sides and regarding the other with austerity. “Huh, d’ye reckon Miss Cullen hasn’t anything to do but to entertain oyster riches? Why don’t you run away some wheres and stick your head in the sand I tell you I am t goln’ to stand Here and be insulted by no squatty old hip pypotamouse!” shrilled the deacon an grily. “Ruther be a hlppypotamouse than to be a featherweight,” snapped Simeon. “If you’re so blame brave, why don’t you flap your wings and crow? Why don’t you let folks know that you’re a Shanghai that’s not afeard of anything in the barnyard even If your pinfeath ers ain’t all grown out?” “I’m a man of pence, Brother Yates,” replied Partridge meekly. “I’m an elder in the church, and I don’t want to get mud, and I don’t want to swear"— “May be that you’re turnin' to an an gel,” retorted Simeon doubtfully, “but you look to me mote like a dominicker that’s too thin to bile and too tough to fry. Anyway, you ought to know that Miss Cullen’s front yard ain't no place for n poultry show.” “Got as much right here as you have, you old b’iled lobster!” screamed the deacon wrathfully. “Ain’t I, Miss Cul len?” “Well, really, Mr. Partridge,” snick ered Miss Cullen, looking happily at Simeon, “now that Mr.—that Simeon and me arc engaged—of course”— “You see, Brother Partridge,” ex claimed Simeon, “the lady has decided that she Isn’t hankerin’ to marry any body that has a mania for breakln’ limbs off of trees, smashin’ down fences and rippln’ open feather beds. Besides, there’s the dog.” Partridge glanced around uneasily. “You know, deacon, when a dog once gets a taste of a bone”— “I certainly extend my congratula tions,” sneered the deacon, scowling at Simeon, “and I hope I haven’t In truded.” “Don’t mention it, Brother Partridge,” Simeon grinned. “But, now, If you’ll step Into the house and let us finish pickin' you. 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It Is not generally remembered that the worldwide reputation of Audubon as a naturalist Incidentally Is due to his failure to establish himself perma nently as a Missouri grocery merchant and dealer In the best brands of Ken tucky whisky. In 1810 he and Ferdinand Rozier of St Genevieve loaded a keel boat at Louisville, Ky., with 310 barrels of whisky and groceries and started down the Ohio and Mississippi to St. Gene vieve to open a grocery store. The trip was made during the winter, and the streams were so full of Ice that the boat was drawn up against the bank and winter quarters were established just below Cape Girardeau. When St. Genevieve was reached, after the open ing of navigation, the firm of Audu bon Rozier opened their store and did a prosperous business. But the business was done by Rozier, for Au dubon preferred the woods to the coun ter and devoted more of his time to sketching and stuffing birds than he did to marketing the 810 barrels of Kentucky bourbon or any other gro ceries. This led to a dissolution of the partnership. On April 11, 1811, Audu bon, convinced of his unfitness for business, sold out to Rozier and took up the work for which he was better fitted than any one who had lived be fore or who has lived since and from a fourth rate grocer became the great ornithologist. The grocery business which Audubon abandoned grew until finally It “extended throughout all of upper Louisiana.”—Kansas City Star. A WOMAN OF QUICK WIT. 8u«an B. Anthony Never Lacked a Ready Reply. Few lives so lend themselves to dra matic narration as Busan B. Anthony’s, says the Delineator. It ranged from tragedy to comedy, with scattered bits of melodrama, she ever In the center of the stage. With her everything was always intensely realistic—not acting. Miss Anthony had a peculiar faculty of condensing a whole speech into a single sentence. For Instance, when she heard men lamenting that the pro fession of teacher was not respected as much as the other professions, “Do you not see that so long as society says woman has not brains enough to be a doctor, lawyer or minister, but has plenty to be a teacher, every man of you who condescends to teach tacitly admits before all Israel and the sun that he has no more brains than a wo man?” And when Horace Greeley said to her at Albany, “You know the bal lot and bullet go together—if you vote, are you ready to fight?” Instantly she retorted, "Yes, Mr. Greeley, Just as you fought In the late war—at the point of a goose quill!” Again, when she was talking on divorce and the Rev. A. D. Mayo, thinking to annihilate her, said, “You are not married; you hove no business to be discussing marriage,” "Well, Mr. Mayo,” she answered, “you are not a slave; suppose you quit lec turing on slavery!" His Support. A young colored man In Washington who passed with credit a civil service examination was immediately certliled for appointment to the treasury de partment. His old mother, a darky of the antebellum type, insisted upon ac companying him to witness his taking of the oath of office. When the official charged with the swearing in of the new clerk put to him the usual formula with reference to "supporting the con stitutlou of the United States" the old lady’s eyes were seen to bulge with as tonishment. But she said nothing till she and her son were outside, when, turning to him, she solemnly observed: “I didn’t wanter say nothin’ in there Joe, but 'deed, honey, i don’t see ho youse goiu’ to auppote de United State when you ain’t been able till now t suppote your folkses.”—St. Paul Pit neer Press. Saving the Company, ji By CARLETON HAZZARD. T T Copyrighted, 1908, by Associated T Literary Press, After a long line of Incompetent stenographers Bradley congratulated himself when Alice Fuller took her place at the typewriter desk, and as though by magic the crooked places were made straight. So quietly did the girl slip Into the routine of the office and so unostenta tiously did she accomplish results that Arthur Bradley did not realize all that she was doing. lie had only the pleas ant feeling that at last the office was running straight, and, manlike, he took the credit to himself. It had been a struggle to get the of fice going at all, for the firm was in opposition to the trust, and everything possible was done to break up the newly established branch office. More than once Bradley had narrow ly escaped some trap laid for him, but for every blow struck at him he gave back as good. The letters from the home office were encouraging and Inti mated that if he would round out the first year there would be an increase of salary ns well ns the present of a block of stock. The biggest feather in his cap was when the home office turned over to him the task of securing a contract for some $2,000,000 worth of material. “Such big contracts are usually han dled from the home office,” he explain er! to Alice Fuller as he gave her the letter with instructions to place it in the private letter file in the safe. “If they turn this matter over to me it is a sign that they have faith in my judg ment. It’s going to be a ticklish mat ter to figure on all that material at a price that will be low7 enough to cap ture the contrail and still give us as much Of a profit as possible.” “They probably realize that you arc close to the contract, and they know that they can trust you,” answered Alice. “It shows that this branch is becoming important.” She went quietly ubout her work, but there was a happy light In her eyes, for she was as much pleased at this sign of confidence as was Bradley himself. Alice vv an uui bin ui impuiBca, vu i she had come to have more than a lik ing for Bradley, and Bhe took a pride in his success. The week that followed was a busy one. Bradley figured far into the night on the problems of cost, and each morning he gave to Alice the results of his work, to be tabulated on the ma chine and filed in the safe until the figures should be complete. It was weary work with all the specifications and blanks, but at last the estimate was complete, and Bradley took it on to New York in person for the ap proval of the home office. He was jubilant on hts return. The president of the company had congrat ulated him on the excellence of his work and had hinted that the new London office might tie opened soon with Bradley in charge. But the jubilation was short lived, for two days later a long letter came from the New York office instructing the branch to alter the estimates in accordance with n set of figures some 10 per cent in advance of the original estimate. “Here’s a job for you,” growled Bradley as he took the paper to Alice’s desk. "I’ll have to do as the home office says, hut it’s throwing away the contract and my chance of promotion.” Are you certain tnat it is tne oruer of the New York office?” asked Alice as she took up the sheets. “You know that this contract will mean a great deal to the trust if they are able to take it away from us. It means a great deal more to us to retain it.” "That’s just it.” complained Bradley. “They know that If we lose this con tract we lose our light for an Independ ent existence and shall have to sell out to the trust at their own price. If we get it,- it will mean that we can beat them and hold our own. Yet they raise my figures.” “And It would be worth a great ef fort to beat us,” went on Alice. “Sup pose that the trust people had some one planted in the home office who could copy the figures and send them to the trust officers. Suppose, too, that they supplied the people with our letter heads and envelopes. We would be unsuspicious aud change the bid In accordance with Instructions, only to find out that we had been duped after the bids had been opened and the con tract awarded to the trust. I think you will find that they have bid only slightly lower than this, but much higher than your original figures.” “That’s possible,” admitted Bradley. “I’ll wire the home office and find out.” “And warn the traitor in the office that his plans have been discovered?” reminded Alice. “They will then bid belowT your figures and get the contract anyway. It would 1* best to hold on and take chances by yourself. It will be the only way to hold the contract.” “If I only could be sure,” exclaimed Bradley. “But I can’t act on mere guesswork.” “This is something more than guess work,” insisted Alice. “In the first place, this letter is mailed from the Madison square station. That is In the building In which the tfust has its main office. Our letters all come from the Wall street station, four or five miles away and nearest our office. They are using the same make of typewriter President Hammond’s ste nographer. uses, but it is not the same machine. On the letters from our of flee tfcere is a piece broken from the cross of every’t.’ “I think you are right!” cried Brad ley as he compared two letters. “We’ll pop in the original estimate, and when they come to open the bids out our trust friends will have a dozen fits.” "But answer this letter and say that changes have been made in the bid in accordance with instructions and that the bid has been submitted,” directed Alice. “Then the traitor will not be come alarmed and notify the trust to put in the lower bid.” “You’re the general,” cried Bradley admiringly. “I am only the second in command until this is straightened out. Do just aB you please.” That evening a letter went to the home office reporting that the changes had been made as directed, but Brad ley personally took to the office of the contracting company the original bid. Two days later a long telegram ar rived from the head office demanding the explanation of the changes to which Bradley made reference. It was Alice who wrote the telegram In reply, explaining what those changes were, and who wrote the second message de claring it to be impossible to alter the bid to the old figures, as they directed by wire. The next morning President Ham mond stamped into the office shortly after Bradley had come in. “I came out on the fast train to see what it all means,” he cried. “You have ruined the company by letting yourself be fooled in this fashion.” For reply Bradley brought out the letter he had received. It startled Hammond, for beyond question it was on the paper of the company and not on a cheap imitation. He sighed ns he laid it down. “I suppose that you cannot be blamed,” he said dispiritedly, “but it means that the company is smashed by a trick of the trust” “Not yet,” declnred Bradley, with a laugh. “Miss Fuller's quick eyes saw through the trick. We took a chance and put in the original bid. I think you will find that we are the lowest bidders, for the trust felt safe in keep ing up their bid.” “If we win, you can have the Lon don office next month,” declared Ham mond. “Excuse me a moment,” said Bradley as he slipped out to the outer office. “It’s a go," he announced beamingly, “Miss Fuller says that she will corne as Mrs. Bradley.” “Rather sudden?” asked Hammond. “It’s sudden only in the recent real Ization that I have loved her evty sinct she came Into the office,” explained Bradley. “It took this crisis to force the fact home.” Alice looked in at the doorway. “The Wellington people telephone that your estimate has won the con tract,” she reported demurely, and to her great embarrassment Bradley kissed her under the approving eyes of the president of the company. “We’ve tricked the tricky trust,” he cried, “and we’re going to London on our honeymoon.” “On my yacht,” added the president. “W’e can’t do too much for the girl whose clever brain saved the company. You’re a lucky man, Bradley." “Don’t I know it?” cried Bradley. “I knew It first.” Lungs and Long Life. One of the most remarkable cases of longevity on record was that of an Englishman born in 1483, whose deli cate appearance made all the doctors give him up when he was in the cra dle. His ‘chest was so narrow, says the report, that he seemed to have dif ficulty in breathing. Well, this young moribund, condemned by the doctors to die in short order, died in 1651 at the age of 169. He saw the reign of ten kings. Secundi Hango, consul of Venice at Smyrna, measured only .fif ty-seven centimeters around the chest, and one of his lungs was diseased. Nevertheless he lived to the age of 115 years. He was married five times and had forty-nine children. When he was 100 years old he got his wisdom teeth. When he was 110 his hair turned black again. At 112 his eye brows and his beard turned black. Lucky In On* Way. “The late Valerian Gribayedoff,” said a Chicago art editor, “was one of the first American newspaper sketch art ists. On that account he leaves be hind him a famous name. As Uribaye doff said himself the last time I vis ited him In Paris, his fame was due not to his great artistic skill, but to his luck in coming first. And he added, with a luugk, that it was always lucky to come early and avoid the rush, in stancing the case of a restaurant on the Boule Mich, in the Latin quarter, where a young poet had a large tureen of soup spilled over his coat one even ing. The waiter, In response to the savage outcries of the poet, said good naturedly: ‘Oh, well, you needn’t alarm your self, sir. There’s no harm done. Our soup never stains after half past 7.’ All In Red. The playwrights Over their supper of lobster boasted. “I,” said the greatest of them, with a complacent glance at the two pure pearls in his shirt front, “decree the color of every actress’ frock.” “That Is carrying the regard for de tail too far,” said a playwright who had failed. “Not a bit of it,” said the other. “If I didn’t decide on the color of the dresses the stage manager would. I Why. that must always be done. Oth erwise. In their overmastering desire to draw all eyes to themselves, every actress would wear bright red. In my first play the frocks were forgotten in the general excitement, and at the first dress rehearsal all six actresses came on In the discovery scene in scarlet gowns.”—New York Press. j;0>c falling ii of Lucy. ii By CLARISSA MACKIE. Copyrighted, 1908, by Associated Uterary Press. c-I-i-W-H-I-H-l-l-i-l-M-l-l-l-l-H-M-l-f Elwood craned his neck as the train drew In at the little station. Yes, here was the low, red brick structure, from either end of which the road wound away between the young oaks, now showing a faint misty brown In the late April sunshine. With a sudden Impulse he arose and grasped his hat and grip. In another Instant he stood before the station house, while the train screamed away through the wooded tunnel of oaks. He looked around at the familiar scene, slightly bewildered at the result of his Impulsive action. He had left New York with the Intention of spend ing the week end with friends at Shrimp Cove, but the familiar scenes through which the train had sped and which marked milestones In his mem ory had roused within him depths of feeling that he thought could not now exist Evading the puzzled glance of the station agent, he turned down the right hand road. Ultimately It would take him to the village hostelry. Inci dentally it would lead him over old paths and permit his fancy to revel In banished dreams. He plodded through the thick yel low sand with eager eyes on the bud ding hedges. Gratefully he Inhaled the delicate spring odors that seemed to emanate from the golden afternoon sunshine. tie puuseu, uuce ucbiuc a. tuaimuf, spring where sweetiiag was shooting green blades from the black, oozy mud, and again in the Honeyspot road, where arbutus clung to the steep banks and the pink pouch of the moc casin flower sprang from the licheued tree stumps. Each time he removed his hat and stood with painfully knit ted brow and reflective eyes. Then he moved on. The village hotel was under new management, and he passed unchal lenged by old acquaintances. He strolled down the irregular street after the evening meal was over and In the spring twilight revisited old haunts and revived old memories until his mind was a chaos of rage with him self and grief for the unattainable. The next morning when clamoring bells rang out from the white painted churches and the quiet streets were gay with the Easter finery of the vil lage belles Elwood made his way to a quaint old edifice tucked away on the shore road, so that when he was seated in a familiar place he could see the white sails in the harbor and the thin drift of smoke from passing steamers on the sound. The gathering congregation looked, curiously at the dignified, middle aged stranger who sat in the old Elwood pew, but he maintained an attitude of motionless rigidity, with eyes fixed steadily on the rippling water beyond the window. He was listening with painful eagerness for a light step. It came. He heard the swish of silk and the soft slip of her feet as she ascended the steps of the chancel and took her place among the assembled choir. In his eyes' mind he could see her, cool and pale, with flaxen hair and dark blue eyes. There would be little change in her appearance after fifteen years. Her fair skin might have faded a little, and her slimness might have become angularity, but there would be no oth er visible alteration. Still, he could not look. TWO women rusueu unu me seal ue hlnd him and conversed In hissing whispers that reached his ear with an noying distinctness. “Lucy Clifford’s got on her blue fou lard silk, ain’t she?” “Yes! I wonder if she’s going to sing today?” “I suppose so. Mr. Larkin said it would be the last year she could sing in the choir.” “Her voice is getting terrible thin, and once in awhile it gives out. She ain’t sung for two or three weeks now. I guess she was saving it so’s she could sing today.” “Lucy’s getting to be a regular old maid. Now that she’s left alone down to the old place, I guess she wishes she’d taken up with young Elwood after all.” “I hope her voice don’t fail today,” remarked one of the women as the low tones of the organ rumbled through the church. Elwood turned his head. Yes; there she sat, her pale, pure profile outlined against the red and purple of the chan cel window. She looked as his memory had limned her save that she was not angular; she still retained her youthful slim ness. There was a pathetic droop to her once proudly lifted head and a wistfulness In the full lidded eyes as she turned toward the congregation. The organ ceased, the white robed minister entered and knelt in prayer, and then with a triumphant burst of music the choir arose and the notes of the anthem rang through the little church. Elwood pressed a hand across his Btinging eyes as the familiar melo dy proceeded. It seemed but yesterday that he had stood beside Lucy Clifford in the choir and lifted his strong young voice In that same strain. He heard the high notes of her thin soprano above the reedy tenor and the rumble of alto and bass, and there was an uncertain quality in it that caused hte heart to teat a little faster la the tear that lier voice might fail altogeth er. Anxiously he followed her through the anthem and sighe<i with relief when the final “Amen” died away in the rustle of the kneeling people. The service proceeded as it had pro ceeded fifteen years ago. There was another minister and, save for Lucy Clifford, other voices in the choir. There were strangely familiar faces in the congregation, and his eyes eluded many a glance of recognition. It was enough for him that he could look upon Lucy Clifford’s sweet face once again. In the morning he would go away. When the long sermon was finished the organ commenced a well known prelude, two gray haired wardens creaked up the aisle and received the oaken contribution boxes, while the choir arose to sing the'offertory. “Christ the Lord is risen today. Al le-lu-ia!” That was Lucy’s voice rising high above the other singers, nnd again El wood felt that tender apprehension lest she should fall. When the second stanza was begun her tones were strained nnd tremulous. “She’s going to break down!” whis pered one of the women iu the seat be hind him. “Lo, our sun’s eclipse is o’er”— It had happened. With a dlscordani wail like the breaking of a violin string Lucy Clifford’s voice died out. The startled choir paused for an in stant, and then from the congregation burst a man’s strong voice, “Al-le-lu-ia!” To a triumphant conclusion he car ried the fine old melody, his rich tenor supporting the wavering voices of the agitated choir. lie had seen the white, frightened face of Lucy Clifford turned in his direction, nnd he threw all the vigor and force of his nature into the third stanza. Almost unconsciously her tremulous voice took up the refrain, and once more their tones were united. It seem ed as though her weak utterance rest ed on the assured strength of his, and he carried it up—up—to an exultant close until their voices blended in final joyous “Al-le-lu-la!” JUutj IjUUUIU 9UU&. uata 1U uui ocul with trembling hands and a flickering color In her pale cheeks. She did not glance at Allen Elwood. It was suffi cient for her that he was present and that In the hour of her distress he had come to her rescue. It was like him to have done that. It was strange that she had permitted that escapade of his youth to blind her to his many noble qualities. Well, It was too late now, but she could re member this day. It would be a pleas ant memory to be stored away against a dreary future. When the service was concluded, Lucy Clifford slipped through the side door Into the churchyard and thence toward the opening In the stone wall that led to the homeward path across lots. Elwood did not fqllow her. It would be of no use. He was too much of a black sheep. But when the dusk fell he walked slowly along the shore road until he came to the old Clifford place. It was a long, low, brown house fac ing the harbor. Tall cherry trees over shadowed Its gabled roof, and thick hedges of pungent box bordered the winding paths. A wind swept up from the bay, and a shower of blossoms fell about him. A whipporwill throbbed from the bough of an apple tree. It was like another night that was past. There was a light step on the grav eled path, a startled exclamation, and he was holding Lucy’s unresisting hands in his own. “I have come to ask your forgive ness, Lucy,” he began tenderly. “Nay,” she murmured tremulously; “It is I who should ask yours for my narrow minded prejudices. But that Is past—I—I tried to steel my heart and failed—and the years have been so long, Allen”— Her voice broke. “I know,” he said slowly, “but the years that are to come will be long and sweet, God willing!” The whipporwill whirred away through the darkness, while again the cherry trees swayed in the breeze and sent a shower of bridal whiteness over the lovers at the gate. Philosophy of Good Clothes. Besides the serttimental and aesthetic reasons that exist for dressing well it seems there Is a scientific one, If we accept the statement of a London med ical man that a good suit of clothes acts as a tonic on the mind of the wearer, while the consciousness that one Is not at one’s best In appearance if wearing shabby or ill fitting clothes may be reckoned as one of life’s real handicaps. In the moral support that smart clothing furnishes he thinks there Is a source of mental strength and activity that aids one to center one’s thoughts on the things that lead to success in one’s trade and profes sion. To be shockingly attired and to be constantly conscious of the condi tion leads the mind into worrying ways that dissipate healthy energy Boston Transcript. A Different Brand. An eminent medical gentleman en gaged a nurse, recently graduated, for a case of delirium tremens. The phy sician succeeded In quieting the pa tient and left some medicine. Instruct ing the nurse to administer it to him if he “began to see snakes again.” At the next call the physician found the patient again raving. To his puz I zled inquiry the nurse replied that the I man had been going on that way for several hours and that she had not given him any medicine. “But didn’t I tell you to give it to him If he began to see snakes again?” demanded the physician. “But he didn’t see snakes this time,” replied the nurse confidently. “He saw red, white and blue turkeys with straw hats on.”—Lippincott’s Maga zine. SHERIFF’S SALE.—By virtue of a writ of fi. fa. to me directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jer sey. will he exposed to sale at public vendue, on MONDAY, THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF JUNE, 1908, between the hours of 12 o’clock ami 5 o'clock at (20’clock) in the afternoon of said day, at the Court House, Freehold, in the townhip of Freehold, county of Monmouth, New Jersey. All that tract or lot of land and premises sit uate in the Township of Ocean, in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, bound ed and described as follows, at Long Branch. Beginning at a point on the eastwardly side of Grant Avenue at the distance of One hun dred and seventy (170) feet, four (4) inches northwardly from the northwardly side of Main Street (North Broadway); thence extending northwardly along the eastwardly side of said Grant avenue fifty (50) feet; thence eastwardly at right angles with said Grant Avenue three hundred and twenty-four (324) feet, nine (9) in ches to the westwardly side of Ocean Avenue; thence extending north eighty eight (88) de grees fifty-three (53) minutes east, (erroneously given in the mortgage sought to be foreclosed erein as northwardly eighty-eight (88) degrees and fifty-three (53) minutes west) crossing said Ocean Aveuue three hundred and fifty-four (354) ieet five (5) inches, more or less, to the low water mark in the Ocean; thence along the same South fourteen (14) degrees, fifteen (15) minutes west forty (40) feet eleven (11) inches; thence south eighty-two (82) degrees thirty two 32) minutes west, recrossing said Ocean Avenue, three hundred and fifty-nine (389) feet six (6) inches to the Westerly side of said Ocean Avenue, and thence westwardly 011 a line at right angles to said Grant Avenue, three hun dred and seventeen (317) feet two (2) inches to the first mentioned point and place of begin ning. Bounded northwardly by ground grant ed to Maria Browne, southwardly by ground granted to James H. Watson, eastwardly by the Ocean and westwardly by Grant Avenue afore said. The covenant of warianty hereinafter mentioned not to extend, however, to such part of said lot as is included within the bed of said Ocean Avenue or beyond high water mark in the Ocean. Being the same land and premises conveyed to the said John Robert Ferrier by Edmund H. Wright (unmarried) by deed bearing date April 3rd, 1900, which deed is to be recorded simul taneously herewith. Seized as the property of John Robert Ferrier, et al, taken in execution at the suit of State Mutual Building and Loan Association, of New Jersey and to be sold by C. ASA FRANCIS, Sheriff. Harvey F. Carr, Sol'r. Dated May 22nd, 1908. ($11.70) SHERIFF’S SALE.—Bv virtue of a writ of fi. fa. to me directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery, of the State of New Jer sey, will be exposed to sale at public vendue, on TUESDAY THE 30th DAY OF JUNE, 1908, between the hours of 12 o’clock and 5 o’clock, (at 2 o’clock) in the afternoon of said day, at the Globe Hotel. Red Bank, in the township of Shrewsbury, county of Mon mouth. New Jersey. All that tract or parcel of land and premises, hereinafter particularly described, situate, lying and being in the Township of Shrewsbury, in the County of Monmouth, and State of New Jersey, at Red Bank, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the westerly side of Riverside Avenue, at the intersection of said Avenue with Allen Place; thence (1) westerly, along the northerly side of Allen Place, one hundred and forty-five (145 ft.) feet to a stake; thence (2) north, ten degrees west, one hundred (100 ft.) feet to a stake; thence (3) easterly, and parallel with the first mentioned course, seventy feet and six inches (70 ft. 6 in.) more or less, to the westerly side of said Riverside Avenue; thence (4) southerly, along the westerly side of said Avenue, one hundred and twenty-four feet and five inches (124ft. sin.) more or less, to the point or place of beginning. Being intended to be a part of the same prem ises ^conveyed to said Robert W. Gleason by John T. Allen, et al., Executors *c., by deed dated December 31st, 1894 and recorded in Book 553 of Deeds, pages 29s &c., and being also in tended to be the same premises conveyed to said party of the first part by said Robert W. Gleason and wife by deed bearing even date •herewith. This mortgage being given to secure a part of the purchase money in said deed mentioned. Seized as the property of Edward F. McGuire, et als, taken in execution at the suit of Samuel H. Combs, et als, and to be sold by C. ASA FRANCIS, Sheriff. William A. Stevens, Sol’r. Dated May 27, 190S. ($9.00) SHERIFF’S SALE.—By virtue of a writ of fi. fa. to me directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jer sey, will De exposed to sale at public vendue, on MONDAY, THE 15th DAY OF JUNE, 1908, between the hours ol 12 o’clock and 5 o’clock, (at 2o’clock) in the afternoon of said day, at the Court House, Freehold, in the township of Freehold, County of Monmouth, New Jersey. All that lot, tract or parcel of land and prem ises, hereinafter particularly described, situate, lying and being in the Township of Ocean, in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jer sey, at I.ong Branch. Beginning at a point on the north side of Morris Avenue, distant four hundred forty-eight feet westerly along the north side of said Avenue from the west side of Third Avenue; thence (1) along the north side of Morris Avenue north fifty-five degrees and forty-three minutes west as the magnetic needle pointed January 5, 1886, seventy-five feet; thence (2) north thirty-four degrees and seventeen minutes east one hundred forty-five feet nine inches to the south side of an alley thirteen leet and six inches wide; thence (3) along the south side of said alley south fifty-five degrees and thirty-two minutes east seventy-five feet; thence (4) south thirty-four degrees and seven teen minutes west one hundred forty-five feet and six inches to the point or place of begin ning. Being the same premises conveyed by Thomas I,. Cooper and wife to W'illiatn Showles by deed dated January 7, 1891 and recorded in the Monmouth County Clerk’s Office in Book 492 of Deeds, page 114, Ate. Seized as the property of William Showles and Hilda Showles, taken in execution at the suit of VanDorn Hendrickson, and to be sold by C. ASA FRANCIS. Sheriff. John W. Slocum, Sol’r, Dated May nth, 1908. $7.20 Monmouth county circuit COURT. Notice is hereby given that a writ of attach ment was issued out of the Monmouth County Circuit Court against the rights aud credits, moneys and effects, goods and chattels, lands and tenements of Vincent Cirrito ana Anna Cirrito absent debtors, at the suit of the E. H. Ogden Lumber Company, body corporate, for the sum of Three Thousand Dollars, returnable on the twenty-fourth day of April, 1908, and that the same was duly executed and returned on the sixteenth day of April, 1908, by the Sheriff of the County of Monmouth. Dated May 7, 1908. McDermott enright. Attorneys of Plaintiff, 259 Washington Street, ($5.60) 5t Jersey City, N. J. Notice op settlement op ACCOUNT. Estate of Collen B. Meirs, deceased. Notice is hereby given that the accounts of the subscribers, Executors of the estate of said deceased will be audited aud stated by the Surrogate and reported for Settlement to the Orphans Court of the County of Monmouth, on THURSDAY, THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, A. D., 1908. THOMAS MEIRS, LOUISA MEIRS. Dated May nth, 1908. ADJOURNED SHERIFF’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the sale of the property of Walter W. Wilson, et als, defend ants, taken in execution out of the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey, at the suit of Elizabeth Mount, complainant, is ad journed to FRIDAY, MAY 29th, 1908, at 2 o’clock p. m., at the Ocboin House, Manasquan, Mon mouth County, N. J. may 14-31 $1.20 C. ASA FRANCIS, Sheriff. NEW JERSEY CENTRAL. Time Table in effect May 25,*i9o8. LEAVE FREEHOLD Fo-New York, Newark, Elizabeth Ac., via all rail route at 7.10, 7.40, 9.00, 11.50 A. M., 2.15,4.20 7.00 P. M. Sundays 7.45 A. M. 4.20, 9.00 P. M. For Long Branch, Ocean Grove &c. at 9.00, 11.50 A.M. 2.15, 4.20,'.6.00 P. M. days 7. 45 A. M. 4.20! 9.00 P. M. LEAVE FARMINGDALB For New York via Red Bank 7.40, 11.09 A.M 3-57..7 02, P. M. Sundays, 8.27 P. M. For Vineland, Bridgeton, 7.13 a. M. 3.29 P. M. For Toms River and Barnegat, 7.1* 11.24 A M* 3.29. 6.22 P. M. Sundays 8.53 A.M. Through tickets to all points at lowest rates may be had on application to the ticket agent at the station. ___ W. C. HOPE, Gen’1 Pass. Ajrt. W. G. Besler, V .P .and Gen’l. Mg’r.

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Ida startling sensation.'Q THE TALK OF THE TOWN. Ever heard of in the history of Freehold and surroundings. Sale begins Saturday, June 6 to continue .j^FOR TEN DAYS ONLY.^ CLOTHING FOR MEN, BOYS’ AND CHILDREN. $22,000 worth of high-grade, tailor-made Clothing for Men, Boys' and Children will be distributed to the people of Freehold and surrounding country for less than cost of manufacture. Let nothing keep you away, as this is going to be the GREATEST SALE ON RECORD. Every thing as advertised or your money refunded. Sale positively opens Saturday, June 6 closes in JO days. NEW YORK BROKERAGE CO., 32 SOUTH ST., FREEHOLD, N. J. €cat-a-tt)ort» department BXouieg to H^naii. Money to loan.—s. c. Cowart, Freehold, N. J. »pr28tf. B\tsccllatico\ts. CASH paid for chickeus Geo. R. Perrine. FOR the best meats come to 2i South St. Geo. R. Perrine. WANTED.—Live Calves aud poui try. Carson Bros. FOR Best Smoked Meats and Lard go to Carson Bros. Everything fresh and pricts right. Geo. R. Perrine. COLD BOILED Hams at Carson Bros. C1HOICE Meats. Briees reasona ble. Louis Crouse NO waiting at Nate Brown's barber shop. Accommodated by three experieu ed barbers. Next to Post Office. OCEAN RECORD BROKEN. Mauretania Makes Best Time Over Westward Course. New York, June 3.—The Cunard liner Mauretania has broken the record over the long course from Queenstown to this port, covering the distance in 4 days 20 hours 15 minutes, with an average speed of 24.86 knots. The Mau retania’s record is seven minutes better than the higli record held by her sister ship, the Lusitania. The Mauretania’s log shows that she made C35 knots in her last day’s steam y CAPTAIN PRITCHARD, lng, which is the best day’s record ever made by a transatlantic steamship. During her last trip west the Cunar der disabled a propeller blade, and she Bailed from here under three propellers. There was no time for repairs at Liv erpool, and maritime sharps did not believe that the Mauretania would be able to write any new records in her log on this trip. While the Mauretania was breaking the westbound record her sister ship, the Lusitania, broke her eastbound rec ord over the long course from New York to Queenstown by two hours and forty-three minutes, covering the dis tance of 2,932 miles in 5 days 4 hours 30 minutes. Political Mixup In Oregon. Portland, Ore., June 3. Governor George E. Chamberlain (Dem.) is the choice of the people of Oregon for the United States senatorship to succeed Charles W. Fulton (Rep), and a Re publican legislature has been chosen to elect him. Chamberlain's majority over his opponent. Henry M. Cake (Rep.), will exceed 1,000, it is believed. Chamberlain’s victory is in the nature of a personal triumph. Oregon normal ly is Republican, and in 1904 Roose velt’s plurality was 42,434. Governor Chamberlain has twice been elected governor of this state. iRBER MIL'S EM Jurymen Fail to Agree In the Whitmore Case. DEFENDANT ON THE STAND- j Tells Story Supplementing Alibi Sworn to by Other Witnesses—Explains De lay In Identifying His Wife's Body In Harrison Morgue. Jersey City, N. J.. June 3.—After be ing out many hours the jury in the case of Thertlore S. Whitmore, accused of murdering his wife In Lampblack swamp, near Harrison, N. J., last Christmas night, reported to the court Its inability to agree and was dis charged. Whitmore will be tried again. Nine of the jurors, it is understood, held out for acquittal, one for murder in the first degree and two for mur der in the second degree. Whitmore himself took the witness stand and told his story of his move ments on the night of the murder. The defendant’s story supplemented the alibi made out for him through the testimony of Samuel Culvers, as sistant dispatcher at the Third Avenue “L” bridge station, and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O^Neil, tenants of the Adams ’’street house, Brooklyn, which was con ducted by Whitmore and his wife. Both the O’Neils not only told of hav ing seen Whitmore at his home at a quarter before 10 on Christmas night, but they also swore to having heard Mrs. Whitmore declare on Christmas day that she was going to Schenecta dy. This supported Whitmore’s later statement that he gave his wife $15 for that purpose. Mrs. O’Neil also swore that Mrs. Whitmore invited her to go with her to Schenectady. Pulvers swore positively that Whit more entered his office at 11:30 on Christmas night. He was not shaken on cross examination. Couldn’t See Well In Morgue. Whitmore told of reading in the newspapers of the finding of a wom an's body at Harrison and of his trip there to view the body. He said he was prompted by the reporters not to j identify the body. The light was poor in the morgue anyway, he said, and I he couldn't see well. On his second visit after ids arrest he made a more careful examination and Itecame con vinced that the body was that of his wife. Tlie witness made positive de nial in response to questions by his counsel that he had killed his wife or that he had any motive for desiring to put her out of the way. The prisoner was put through a grilling cross examination, during which the fact was drawn from him that he had been convicted of assault and robbery at Troy, N. Y., in 1896 and sent to Dannemora prison. This admission was offset, however, by the further statement that Governor Black had pardoned Whitmore. Whitmore declared that the roan on whose evidence he had been convicted was tried for perjury, convicted and sent to prison for three years. Explains His Letters. In answer to a question by the prose cutor Whitmore said that the letter which he wrote to the Salter family in Schenectady was in acknowledg ment of Christmas gifts and that the signature was meant for “Theodore and Lena.” In general the prosecu tion failed to shake the testimony he had given on direct examination. Whitmore told how O’Neil had brought down some Christmas dinner to the Whitmore apartments. The de fendant said he went out to get a drink and some tobacco, and When he re turned his wife had gone. "That was the last time I saw her until I saw her body in the morgue,” declared the defendant. The damaging evidence against Whit more was chiefly given by Georgia Dickinson of .Manhattan, William Bart lett, a chum of Whitmore’s; Frederick Elliott of Auburndale, Mass., another chum of the accused man, and Henry Siegel, conductor of the_ train Whit more operated on the Third avenue “L.” Harry Hendrickson also testi fied. He said he had been overfriend ',y with Airs. Whitmore. Contrary to expectations the Dickinson woman was not the "star” witness. She was bad ly frightened. The witness admitted Whitmore met her on the morning of Dec. 2G after 1 a. m. with the witness Elliott and that they went to Whitmore’s house. She had objected, she said, to going there. because she feared to meet Mrs. Whit-1 more. Elliott, she said, assured her Mrs. Whitmore had gone to Detroit, and then she consented to go. She said her right name was Charlotte McDon ald. Vihen Whitmore met her on the morning after the murder he gave her a bracelet, which was shown to her on the stand, and she identified it as the one the prisoner had given her. Elliott testified that he had written the letters to Mrs. Whitmore’s sister, i Mrs. Schmitter of East One Hundred and Seventieth street, the Bronx, at the dictation of Whitmore. These let ters were written on Dec. 28. The let ters were signed "Lena” and addressed “Dear Sister,” and in them Whitmore had Eliott' say his wife was well and would visit Mrs. Schmitter soon. Mrs. Whitmore had been dead two days then. Philip Acquitted. Washington, June 3.—Gaston P. Phil ip, civil engineer and clubman of New York and Washington, was acquitted of the murder of Frank Mac-aboy, a cab driver. The jury returned its ver dict of not guilty after having been out an hour and twelve minutes. Phil ip's plea was self defense. IS TRUELSOH INSANE? Man Who Says He Helped Mrs. Gunness May Be Crazy. FATHER-IN-LAW TELLS STORY Daughter Was Abandoned by Hus band, Who Asserted First Wife Was Killed on Laporte Farm—Details of His “Confession.” New York, June 3.—Details of the marriage of his daughter, Sarah Ara bella, to Julius G. Truelson, Jr., of this city, who made the sensational state ment in Vernon, Tex., that he had aid ed Mrs. Belle Guinntss of Laporte, Ind., to dispose of bodies of persons he asserted had been murdered by her, were told by Cornelius I*■ Vreeland of Canarsie, N. Y. Vreeland said the only explanation he or his daughter could (ind for Truelson’s story was that the young man wished to end his life or was crazy. Julius Truelson is in the Texas jail charged with swindling by represent ing himself as Jonathan G. Thaw of Pittsburg. The dispatches from Ver non say he hears the marks of long dissipation and seems to In* addicted to drugs. In his confession to the Texas sheriff he says he married Mae Francis O’Reilly of Rochester, lured her to the Gunness farm at Laporte, where he helped to dispose of her body after Mrs. Gunness put her to death. He told the sheriff further he intended tak ing his second wife, Sarah Arabella Vreeland, daughter of C. P. Vreeland of Canarsie, N. Y., to whom lie was married in March last, to have her killed by Mrs. Gunness, but received a letter from the archmurderess telling him that the sheriff was making in quiries. First Wife Has Disappeared. Truelson first met Mrs. Gunness, the confession continued, in the Sherman House in Chicago after he had read her matrimonial advertisement in a Danish paper. He accompanied her to Laporte. Mrs. Gunness told him, he asserted, that he could make money by helping to dispose of persons who died under her care in her illegal practice of midwifery. This confession was denied after ward by the young prisoner, hut Mae O’Reilly has apparently disappeared, and dispatches from Laporte say a ring marked with her name was found in the ruins of the Gunness home "My daughter was introduced to Tru eison several months before the mar I'inge,”' said Vreeland. “The two took a liking to one another, and Belle got my permission to be married. The cer emony was performed on March 2 last in Jersey City. The two went to Mont r? “About a week afterward I got a let 1 er from Truelson’s father in which he lid his son already was married, and had the father known of the second .:7air he would have warned me in time. Meantime my daughter arrived in Montreal. About eight days after he wedding her husband told her he •.mist leave her for a day or two to at tend to business. The report that he showed her a letter from Mrs. Gun mss is false. Until the murder stories appeared in the newspapers Belle never had heard of the woman. But Julius didn't c-onie back. Instead I had to pay $100 to obtain my daughter’s re lease from a cell in Montreal, as a bad check given by Truelson had made trouble. She came back here to live and has neither seen nor heard from Truelson since.” Looking Up Truelson's History. Vreeland added that inquiries were being made through his lawyer, Wil liam Wilson, to learn whether Mae O’Reilly was alive at the time of Tru elson's marriage with Miss Vreeland. The result of the investigation, Vree iand asserted, would determine wheth er his daughter would bring action for annulment or for divorce. Truelson's brother Harry said that Julius was in the Elmira reformatory at the time the "confession” had him aiding Mrs. Gunness. “My brother Is crazy,” said Harry Truelson. “He was struck on the head by a trolley ear at Twenty-third street and Broadway five years ago and has been crazy since. He was paroled from Elmira reformatory on the 1st of last January, and lie was a prisoner when -Mrs. Gunness was active killing per sons. He was sent to the reformatory for deserting from the army and nuvy. His story is ridiculous.” it was declared 111 J.aporte that tuc state attorney’s office had three con fessions, each dovetailing into the oth er, made by Truelson in the Vernon (Tex.) jail. The first came in a letter to State Attorney Smith under date of May 18. It resulted iu the hurried dis patch of Sherifi’ Smutzer to the Texas town. While Smutzer was detained fifty or more miles away from Vernon by the floods then deluging Texas, Truelson I wrote another confession. This bears the date of May 25, four days before I Sheriff'Smutzer had his famous inter view, with the taking of Truelson be fore Judge Huff, in whose court, know ing that he could be hanged under the laws of Indiana for complicity in mur der, he unfolded the remarkable story which he repudiated wiien the hour came for Sheriff Smutzer to take him away from the Texas jail and start for Laporte. Skilled attorneys, after making a careful comparison of three confes sions, each more voluminous than the other, combined in the opinion that each corroborates the ether. There was not a mistake in date and not an error in the matter of detail. Peace Conferee-e Begins. Lake Mohonk, N. Y„ May 20.-The fourteenth annual I.ake Mohonk con ference on international arbitration, which began here, exceeds any previ ous conference in numbers in attend ance. From 350 to 400 conferees are here. I -1 I ...Ill.■■■■.. TH— PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Bulletin. REDUCED RATES TO WESTERN CITIES. For the benefit of delegates attending the sessions of the bodies enumerated below and others desiring to visit the I cities of the West, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has arranged to place on sale to all persons excursion tickets to the various meeting places at a considerable reduction from 1 eq^usua fares: Chicago, 111. American Medical Association, June 2 to 5. Tickets sold May 28 to 30, good returning until June 12, inclusive. Louisville, Ky. International Sunday School Associa ion, June 15 to 23. Tickets sold June 13 to 17, good re i turning, until June 26, inclusive. Chicago, 111. Republican National Convention, June 17. Tickets sold June 12 to 16, good returning until June 27, j inclusive. Denver, Col. Democratic National Convention, July Tickets sold July 1 to 4, good return until July 17, in clusive. Cleveland, Ohio. International Convention, Rap ists Young People’s Union of America, July 8 to 12. Tick ets sold July 6 to 8, good to return until July 15, inclusive. St. Paul, Minn. Imperial Council, Mystic Shrine, July 13 to 18. Tickets sold July 9 to 11, good to return until July 25, inclusive. Columbus, Ohio. Prohibition National Convention, July 14 to 16. Tickets sold July 10 to 13, good to return un til July 24, inclusive. Indianapolis Ind. National Convention, A. O. H July 20 to 25. Tickets sold July 17 to 19, good to return until July 31, inclusive. Toledo, Ohio. National Encampment, G. A. R., Aug ust 31 to September 5. Tickets sold August 27 to 30, good to return until September 15, inclusive. Denver, Col. Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., September 19 to 26. Tickets sold September 15 to 17, good bto return until September 30, inclusive. The Pennsylvania Railroad maintains a comprehen sive schedule of fast express trains to Chicago, St. Louis, In dian apolis, Louisville, Columbus, Cleveland, and Toledo from the principal cities of the East. Full details of thereducedfarearrangementsforthe.se conventions and the through western train service may be otained of any Pennsylvania Railroad Ticket Agent. s Fine Job Printing at the Monmouth Inquirer Office.

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Paragraphic Photographs of the World’s Doings Secretary Taft when apprised that comment had been caused by his refer ence in his Memorial day address in New York to General Grant’s resigna tion from the army before the civil war made the following statement: “I yield to no man in my admiration for Gen eral Grant, in my high estimate of his remarkable qualities and character and of the great debt that the nation owes him. In my memorial address I at tributed his resignation from the army in 1854 to his weakness for strong drink, because from Mr. Garland’s life of General Grant and the evidence he cites and from other histories I sup posed it was undoubtedly true.” Confident of his ability to carry the stars and stripes to the north pole, Commander Robert E. Peary, who has planted the American flag nearer the coveted northern goal than any other living man, is in New York making active preparations for another arctic dash. Peary’s present plans contem plate his departure from New York about July 1, but lack of sufficient funds to finance the expedition may prevent the start. In fact, unless $25, 000 is forthcoming by the 1st of July the project will have to be abandoned. Her starboard twelve inch gun dis abled, her deck turret armor crushed in and her skeleton mast ripped and •hot away in a dozen places, the mon itor Florida, battle scarred, but not vitally injured, withstood the effects of high explosive projectiles shot from the guns of the Arkansas in Hampton Roads. Torpedo experiment was de ferred until later. She was able to get away under her own steam, her forward guns still responding perfect ly to the training gear, her skeleton mast still standing. Tne reaerai granu jury in new lorn found two indictments against Theo dore H. Price, the big cotton broker, and the grand jury of the supreme court of the District of Columbia found indictments against Price and others on charges growing out of the cotton report leak scandals of 1905. The men indicted in Washington with Price are Moses Haas and Frederick A. Peck ham of New York and Edwin S. Holmes, Jr., of Washington, former assistant statistician of the department of agriculture. The supreme court affirmed the de cision in the extradition case of H. Clay Pierce of the Waters-Pierce Oil company of St. Louis, holding him Bubject to extradition to Texas, where he is under indictment on a charge of perjury in swearing that his company had not entered into a con spiracy in restraint of trade. It is con tended that the Waters-Pierce com pany is a part of the Standard Oil company. The special committee of the house of representatives appointed to inves tigate the wood pulp and print paper situation in relation to the tariff and with regard to an alleged conspiracy in restraint of trade submitted a ma jority and a minority report. The lat ter recommends the placing of wood pulp and print paper on the free list, but the former advises further investi gation. The close of the first five months of 1908 marked what is believed to be the beginning of the end of the depres sion in New England which has hung over the manufacturing centers since the weeks following the financial dis turbances last fall. Many mills which have been ou short time for months started their machinery on full time schedules. “All millionaires got their money hon estly, and of all the millionaires on my list of acquaintances, and I know ev ery one in the United States intimate ly, I do not know a dishonest’one,” said Charles M. Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, to the delegates of the boilermakers’ conven tion in session in Detroit. A bill requiring all Interstate rail roads to equip their locomotives with ash pans that 'can be dumped and cleaned without the necessity of an employee going under the locomotive was passed by the senate and the house. It will go into effect if approv ed by the president on Jan. 1, 1910. Governor Hughes sent to both houses of the New York legislature a special message recommending more than a dozen new matters for legisla tive consideration, which he declared to be of urgent importance. Bills em bodying most of the recommendations were promptly introduced. Reopening of some of the ballot boxes used in the New York election of 1905 resulted in gains for William R. Hearst, claimant of the mayoralty chair, occupied by George B. McClel lan. The first seven boxes opened showed a gain of 119 votes for Mr. Hearst. The time honored title “presiding elder” was abolished by the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at Baltimore by the adoption of a minority report from the revision committee recommending that the name be changed to “district superin tendent.” Samuel Gompew, president of the American Federation of Labor, has made an appeal to organized labor throughout the country to vote against congressmen who have voted against labor bills. Mr. Gompers is particular ly bitter against Speaker Cannon. Former President Cleveland, who has been 111 at Lakewood, N. J., recov ered sufficiently to leave there for his heme at Priaeetoa. After a trip up the Hudson river j from New York, where it had lain in state after Its disinterment in Wash I ington, the body of Governor George j I*’. Clinton was brought to Kingston. N. Y., for reinterment on the New York naval reserve ship Wasp. Joseph Antonio Maceo, a negro stu dent at Syracuse university, and Alice Isabel Mackley. a white girl, procured a marriage license at Syracuse. N. Y. The bridegroom says that he is the son of the Cuban insurgent general, An tonio Maceo. The one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the first American temperance society In the town of Mo reau. Saratoga county, N. Y„ will be celebrated by an international congress to be held at Saratoga, N. Y., June 14 to June 23. The hearing of the charges of the King committee against District At torney Jerome was finished at Eliza bethtown. N. Y. Commissioner Hand will probably have his report ready for Governor Hughes by June 15. Entangled in the folds of a flag which he waved as he made a para chute drop from a balloon near Pas saic, N. J„ Frederick L. Wood, a twen l ty-one-year-old aeronaut, fell Into the Passaic river and was drowned. In the waters of the Delaware river, on whose shores so many ships of the “new navy” have been built, there was launched the great steel hull of what will be the formidable battleship Michigan. The corner in May corn which has been run by James A. Patten of Chi I cago and his associates came to an end. i The Patten crowd is generally credited I with having made about $2,000,000 on the deal. I In the hope of discovering a preven tlve and cure for tuberculosis Frank Merritt of New York, a middle aged man, permitted a physician to inoculate his system with the germs of the dread disease. The Montana supreme court held that Ialtor unions may not be enjoined from instituting and continuing a boy cott so long ns the means employed to make it effective are not in themselves illegal. North Carolina was carried for state prohibition by a majority that is esti mated at from 40,000 to 42,000. The Prohibition ticket carried seventy eight out of the ninety-eight counties. “Secretary Taft will be the next president of the United States, and the financial troubles in America will soon be over.” So said J. Pierpont Morgan In an Interview in London.

SPORTING Terry McGovern 01 a«aio« Brooklyn and Spike AFFAIRS. Robson, the English featherweight, fought six rounds at the National Athletic club, New York, giving a somewhat tanie exhibition to the big crowd which watched them, j Robson had the better of it toward I the end. McGovern has quit the ring. The intercollegiate athletic meet in Philadelphia, at which representatives of many colleges met, was won by Cornell, with 34 points. Pennsylvania was second, with 21 Yale third, with 22; Harvard fourth, with 17y2, and Dartmouth fifth, with 17. 1 Cheered by more than 23,000 por i sons, Celt, a three-year-old colt bearing the popular colors of James R. Keene, won the twenty-second running of the 1 Brooklyn handicap, one of the classic 1 events of the American turf, at the Gravesend race track. 1 W. K. Vanderbilt’s Seasick II.. with 1 Henry up, ran a dead heat with M. T. Deschnmps' Quintette II. for the French Derby.

NEWS OF So many false and THE misleading statements NATIONAL regarding Vlce Prt>s1' dent Fairbanks’ caudl CAMPA1GN. dacy have been and are being made that Senator Ilemen way authorized the following state ment: “The purpose of these reports is obvious and should not be given cre dence. Vice President Fairbanks’ name will be presented to the Chicago convention for the presidential nomina tion. Any report or intimation be tween now and the assembling of the convention at Chicago, from whatever source it may be attributed, that ,-my variation will be made from Vice Pres ident -Fairbanks' present position may be put down as absolutely untrue.” “There is no question about tariff re vision. The tariff will be revised. Whether the Republicans or the Demo crats will do the revising is very likely to be the predominating issue of the campaign. I hope the Republicans will lie able to meet in special session im mediately after the November election and proceed to that duty.” So spoke Senator William B. Allison of Iowa, one of the Republican leaders of the senate. William J. Bryan replied to the as sertion that the Nebraska campaign fund was indebted to Thomas F. Ryan, the New York capitalist, for a contri bution. “If Mr. Ryan contributed di rectly or indirectly to the Nebraska campaign fund I will see that every dollar is returned to him," said Mr. Bryan. Mayor James C. Dahlman of Omaha. Democratic national commit teeman for Nebraska, assumed respon sibility for soliciting the money, de claring that Mr. Bryan knew nothing of it. All the governors who attended the conference at the White House, with the exception of those from Indiana. Illinois, Wisconsin and New York, are of the opinion that Secretary Taft will be nominated. The majority of them believe that the secretary’s opponent will be Mr. Bryan. In unequivocal language Secretary Taft declared in favor of campaign publicity legislation. The secretary nadc known his position in answer V a telegram from Wiiilam J. Bryan In viting the announcement. The Republican congressional com mittee has offered if 150 for the best article not exceeding a thousand words on the subject “Why the Republican Party Should Be Successful Next No vember.” The Texas Democratic platform In dorsed Senator Bailey unreservedly and instructed for Bryan for presi dent,, New Hampshire Democrats failed to Instruct for Bryan, but the four dele gates elected are Bryan men. Among the states that have declared or Bryan are West Virginia and Ari rona as well as Nevada, Arkansas and Louisiana.

DEATHS Roar Admiral Arent OF NOTED Schuyler Crownln F shield died in the Episcopal hospital in Philadelphia after an operation for nasal polypus. Admiral Crowninshleld was chief of the bureau of navigation during the Spanish-Amerlcan war and until his retirement a few years ago. General Stephen D. Dee, commander in chief of the United Confederate Vet erans, died at his home in Vicksburg, Miss. He was seventy-five years old. General Lee, who held the rank of lieutenant general in the Confederate army, ordered the firing of the first shot on Fort Sumter as a member of General Beauregard’s staff. Former United States Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas dleiiML Wash ington. He was one of the leading Democrats in the senate from 1885 to 1903 and was one of the strongest sup porters of William J. Bryan, having as chairman of the Democratic national committee conducted the campaigns of 1896 and 1900. General the Right Hon. Sir Redvers Henry Buller died in England. He was bom In 1839 and took a conspicu ous part in the recent Boer war. m m CRIMES Ten dea<*’ twelve in jured, hundreds of AND head of cattle killed, a CASUALTIES. vast; aCreage 0« crops destroyed and many buildings wrecked were the results of a series of torna does that visited Alfalfa county, Okla. Judge Burnett in the circuit court in Salem, Ore., sentenced J. Thoburn Ross, the Portland banker, to five years’ Imprisonment and to pay a fine of $576,004. Ross recently was con victed of wrongful conversion of state school funds. Dynamiters wrecked the $1,000,000 pipe line that conveys water from the Bonita mountains to Carrizozo, N. M„ where ail the engines of the El Paso and Southwestern railway system are supplied.

_ John E. Redmond, foreign leader of the Irish par NOTES ty, and Joseph Devlin, OF INTEREST Nationalist member of parliament for Belfast, will visit Bos ton in September to attend the con vention of the Irish league. A double murder was committed in Paris by a band of stranglers. Adolphe Steinheil, a noted painter, and his wife’s mother, Mine. Jnp.v. were stran gled to death in the artist’s home in the Rue de Vaugirard. Ilis wife was gagged and bound to a bed and heard her mother's dying struggles as she fought for her life with the murderers. The accident tti the Red Star line steamship Vaderland, carrying 1,600 passengers, over which considerable anxiety was felt on account of rumors that she had been wrecked, was very slight. Near Marseilles, France, Lee de For est. the wireless telegraph inventor, talked seventy-eight miles by means of his new wireless telephone.

nfw«s of The Central American IN EWo CM- court Qf justjce held OUR its opening session in NEIGHBORS. Cartago, Costa Itica. The inaugurating ceremonies were brilliant and interesting and awaken ed great enthusiasm in all the states of Central America. Delegates from the United States and Mexico were preseut. The court is an outcome of the Central American peace confer ence held in Washington last year. The important announcement was made at the Washington war depart ment that a decision had been reached not to withdraw any of the American troops from Cuba at the present time. Senor Don Augusto B. Leguia was elected to succeed Dr. Pardo as presi dent of Peru. Live Stock Markets. New York, June 2. CATTLE—Supply light; market steady; choice, $*1.75a7.10; prime, $6.40a6.75; veal calves. $6.50a7.25. HOGS—Receipts light; market steady; prime heavies, mediums and heavy York ers. $5.90; light Yorkers, $5.75; pigs, $6a 5.30; roughs. $4.50a4.90. SHEEP AND LAMBS Supply light; market slow; prime wethers, $4.66a4.76; culls and common, $2a3; lambs, $3a6.10. General Markets. BUTTER—Creamery, specials, 24c.; ex tras. 23Vfec.; firsts. 22^a23c.; state 1 dairy, good to finest, 21Vfea23c.; process, specials, 21%c.; extras. 20*^a21c.; ladies, firsts, 19c.; packing stock No. 1. 18%c. CHEESE—Full cream, old, specials, 15c." state, full cream, old. small, white, fancy. H^c.; small, colored, fancy, 14%c.; large, colored, fancy. 14Vfec.; fair to prime. llVfca 13c.; common. 8a9*&c.; new. 9%al0^c.; skims. 1% pound specials, 8%c.; fine, 6%a 7%e. EGGS Fresh gathered, extras. 19c.; extra firsts. 17al7%c.; firsts. 16al6Hc.; seo onds, 14Hal5^c.; dirties, fresh gathered, No. 1, 14al4Vfcc.; No. 2, 12al3c.; checks, fresh gathered, 12al3c. LIVE POULTRY-Firmer; fowls. 18s ISV&c.; old roosters, 9a9Vfec.; spring chick ens. 24a28c. DRESSED POULTRY-Firm and in good demand; fresh killed fowls, choice, 18V4al4c.; do., fair to good. 12Hal8c.; old roosters, 10%c.; nearby broilers. 30a85o.; western, do., 25a30c. POTATOES—Steady; choice, per bushel, 75ai()tt., fair to good, 50a56c. »inew yiiMi MOT IN WOMAN’S CLOTHES.

1 Jeff Davis Wore a Fantastic Coat, but It Was a Man's. Recently the Boston Herald publish ed an interview with L O. Bateman of Auburn, Me., a veteran of the civil war, in which Mr. Bateman stated that the story that Jefferson Davis, the lead er of the lost cause, when captured by I the Onion troops was dressed in wom en’s clothing is a myth. The Herald interview was widely copied, and Mr. Baseman received many letters regarding the matter, and almost without exception they are fa vorable to his side of the controversy. One letter was from Captain B. D. Bryant, sheriff of Jackson county. Mo., In which, among other things, he said: “I was a commissioned officer of the Twelfth Maine regiment and was with the regiment at Augusta, Ga., when Jefferson Davis was brought in by his captors. I remember the Incident very well, and your interesting story awak ens a slumbering memory of those stir ring times. “I, too, saw Mr. Davis and his entire party and had conversation with Ste phens and others of the distinguished prisoners. “I spoke to Davis, but he was reti cent and disinclined to notice me. “I was officer of the guard by regu lar detail this day, which gave me van tage opportunities that I might not otherwise have had. I was aboard the Planter and took in everything in sight and some things that weren’t Several officers ef our regiment accompanied the Planter on the trip with its pre cious cargo of the defunct Confederacy. “Your description of Mr. Davis in surtout and cavalry boots tallies ex actly with my remembrance of his at tire, and I have always maintained that a mistake has gone abroad con cerning his capture in female garb. “I also conversed with several of his captors. In fact, one of the officers of Lieutenant Colonel Pritchard’s com mand was a guest at our headquarters, and he did not mention any peculiarity of dress other than the rather fantastic coat coming well down to the feet. “Absurdities surely do creep into his tory.” _ WAITED FORTY YEARS. Romance Interrupted by War Renewed In Life’s Winter. Not long ago was performed In Wash ington a wedding ceremony which was postponed more than twoscore years ago by the civil war. The bridegroom was sixty and gray. His bride also was sixty and gray. Both were as happy as they were when as playmates they looked for ward to an early marriage. W’hen James Gaffney enlisted as a private in Company K, Fifth cavalry, of Washington and rode away to up hold the cause of the Union he left be hind him a young girl, but he carried with him her promise to wed him as soon as the war was over. Gaffney re mained a, soldier from the beginning to the end of the war, When he return ed to Washington he was unable to find his sweetheart. In his disappointment he drifted away from the city and finally located in Pittsburg. In a few years Gaffney married, and he did not return to Washington until six months ago. When he did so he was a widower. He had been there but a short time when he found the object of his search many long years before. She, too, had married, but her husband had died thirteen years ago. Gaffney called on his old sweetheart with great regularity. They took pleasure in recalling the olden days when as playmates they plighted their troth. Gradually the love which was interrupted over forty years ago be gan to ripen, and Gaffney, now gray haired, but still ardent pleaded his cause with all the fervor which marked his first proposal, and the object of his affection, Mrs. Houora Burke, was as demure and coy as she was when she blushingly said “Yes” to her sweet heart of old.—Philadelphia Tress. Bird Structure. Birds belong to the vertebrates, or backboned animals. They are distin guished from the rest of the verte brates by the graceful outlines of their bodies, by their clothing of feathers, toothless jaws and the fore limbs, or wings, being adapted to flying. Nature has made many wonderful provisions in the. bird, especially in the formation and arrangement of the bones. These are compact and in many cases hollow, thus combining lightness with strength. The first bone of the backbone is so freely jointed to the skull that birds can turn their heads around and look directly back. Alms From a Tomb. A remarkable custom which has i been uninterruptedly in force for 300 i years is yearly observed at Ideford, a secluded parish a few miles from j Chudleigh. It is that of picking up alms from the donor’s tomb in the churchyard. The rector and church warden stand at one end of the tomb, upon the flat top of which they place coins. The recipients of the charity come up one by one to the other end of the tomb and pick up the money.— London Standard. They’re All Old. “I am about,” said the speaker, “to tell a story which I believe is new to most of you.” “Gee,” interrupted a little man at the end of the banquet hall, “that fel low would believe anything!”—Chicago Record-Herald. Youth and Advice. Naturally youth doesn’t listen to ad vice. One has to make mistakes for forty or fifty years before one begins to suspect that such things are possi ble.—IndianapoliB News. t SHOWED HIM BLACKWATER. General Sheridan’s Joke on an Aged and Obstinate Confederate. “General Phil Sheridan had a strong sense of humor, which helped us out considerably at times,” says Major W. H. Spera, sole survivor of Sheridan’s escort on the famous ride to Wlnehes I ter. “I remember once when we were I trying to reach a creek called Black water he hailed an old man in passing and asked him questions. The old man refused to direct him to the creek, plainly Intimating that his sympathies were with Lee. ‘How far are we to Blackwater?’ asked Sheridan, studying a map In front of him. ‘I do not know, sir,’ replied the old man obstinately. ‘Have you never been to Blackwa ter, sir?’ Inquired Sheridan. ‘I have never been to Blackwater, air,’ snapped the old man. ’Never been to Blackwater?’ In sisted Sheridan. ‘No, sir,’ said the old man. “Sheridan called an orderly and in structed him to arrest the old man and lead him at the head of the troops. For four miles ttie old fellow walked that dusty road, getting madder every min ute and choking in the clouds of dust raised by the troops. "When we reached Blackwater, Sher idan rode forward and sent for the old man, who came silently enough, but with defiance and hatred showing plainly In every action. ‘I thought It a pity, sir,’ said Sheri dan quietly, ‘that a man born and rais ed here, as you tell me you were, had never had an opportunity to see a creek only four miles from his home. I have brought you here, sir, to show you Blackwater creek. When you have looked at it well, sir, you may return to your home In safety, sir.’ “The crestfallen man quietly retired to be met all along the line with cheers and yells and courteous inquiries as to how he liked the looks of Blackwa ter.”—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. The other neper took the form of an open letter from the younger Sterry. OWNS UP TO MURDER. Farmhand Confesses Killing of Two Women and Man; New York, May 20.—Frank Zastera, the boyish farmhand who raised the alarm about the triple murder at Wick atuuk, N. J.. confessed that it was he who shot and killed William D. Shep herd. Mrs. Josephine Shepherd and their young employee. Jennie Bendy, leaving the Shepherds’ young baby the only living person in the house. While armed posses galloped and tramped every road and wood patch in Monmouth county looking for another foreigner suspected of the crime the police for eighteen straight hours put Zastera through all the terrors of the dread “third degree” only to be bathed by his iron nerve and plausible stories. At the end of their resources Prose eutor Stokes and his assistants forced him as a final test to don the -blood stained, shot torn vest taken fro Shepherd’s body. They made him pin; his hand upon that part of it above ti, heart. “Now swear that you are innocent;' they commanded. The boy broke down and sobbed: “I did it! I did it! I killed all th/e Now let me alone, and I’ll tell all!” It was partly a weak mind, parti fear, that impelled him to tare t' three lives, he explained. Robber) was his original motive. Report on New Bishops. Baltimore, May 2t).—The Methodist Episcopal general conference was thrown into a hot debate by the pres entation of the report of the committee on the Episcopacy, which recommended that ten new bishops be elected. Ulti mately the conference decided that the number should be eight, but this deci sion was arrived at only after an hour and a half of discussion of the report and amendments thereto which were offered. Dreamers. There was never so much need for real dreamers as there is today. The business man, caring only for “his beef, his beer and his pew in eternity,” will laugh scornfully and want to know how his balance sheet would appear did he give way to dreaming, forgetting that his operations originat ed years ago in the vaguest visions; also that happiness is not a necessary compliment of a heavy cash box.—Lon don Academy. Won In Spits of His Lawyer. A once well known attorney used to tell a good story on himself. He had been retained to defend a counterfeiter and advised him to plead guilty. His client did so, and as there was in the mind of the court a fixed idea that if a prisoner pleads guilty he does so be cause he has no attorney the Judge asked him why he made that plea. “Because my lawyer told me to.” “Did he give you any reason for it?” “Yes. He told me 1 would have no show before this Judge.” The court flared up and ordered a plea of not guilty to be entered, and the counterfeiter was acquitted. Tho Source Told All. “What’d Jimmy give yer fer yer birthday?” “This here brass ring.” "How’d yer know it ain’t nothin’ but brass?” “He give it ter me.”—Cleveland Leader. There are nettles everywhere, but the smooth, green grasses are more common still.—Mrs. Browning. POSTAGE STAMPS, Waste and Carelessness That Enrich Uncle Sam. “If we waste other things the way J we do stamps,” said a stamp clerk the j other day, “we Americans are just i I about the most wasteful people on the face of the earth. “Uncle Sam is much more than half a million dollars in pocket every year as a result of carelessness in the use of stamps. The government never loses i anything by such carelessness and al-j ways gains. 1 “How many stamps do you put loose j In a drawer of your desk or in a corner j of your pocketbook and never think of I again until you come across them, aged 1 and torn, while rummaging about months later? Then they are tossed |lnto the wastebasket. I “Lots of people are careless about putting stamps on envelopes and paper wrappers. The result is that often be fore the stamp has been canceled It has fallen off and the letter is held up at the other end of the_ line until post age is paid. “A great many more folks put on too much postage. They slap on two or three stamps to a package that re quires only one. They are too busy or too Indolent to take the trouble to have the package weighed and find out how much postage the package requires. “If too little postage is put on a let ter, Uncle Sam simply holds it up at the other end until the postage due has been paid. But if too much is put on Uncle Sam simply pockets the ex cess to which' he Is not entitled and says nothing.”—Chicago Tribune. WATCH THE CELLAR. If Not Clean It Is a Breading Place For Sickness. Underground cellars ought to be done away with. They are relics of a dark age. More sickness originates in them, physicians claim, than anywhere else about the place. They cannot be kept In sanitary condition while vegetables are constantly decaying there. The place for a cellar is above ground and outside the dwelling. Leave the base ment for the furnace, the coal bin and a general storeroom. An above ground cellar is more convenient in every way. Your vegetables can be stored with less than half the labor when you do not have to go up and down stairs with them. You can keep an above ground cellar clean with but little trouble, while the underground one, being diffi cult to get at, will be neglected nine times out of ten and allowed to become a source of infection to the family above it. Ventilation and temperature are much more controllable iu such a build ing than in an old fashioned under ground cellar, which obliges the house wife to use up so much strength in climbing stairs. Locate it convenient to the kitchen, with which it can be connected in winter by an inclosed passageway. Watch the cellar. Re-’ member, the doctor who immediately asked, when called to treat a case of typhoid fever, if there was decaying cabbage in the cellar. There was. Keep the cellar sweet and clean and see that It Is frequently aired—Subur ban Life. A Mountain of Alum. In China, twelve and a half miles from the village of Llouchek, there Is a mountain of alum which in addition to being a natural curiosity is a source of wealth for the inhabitants of the country, who dig from it yearly tons of alum. The mountain is not less than ten miles in circumference at its base and has a height of 1,940 feet. The alum is obtained by quarrying large blocks of stone, which are first heated In great furnaces and then in vats filled with boiling water. The alum crystallizes out and forms a layer about six inches in thickness. This layer is subsequently broken up into blocks weighing about ten pounds each. Travel as Teacher. “Travel forms the young” Is a French proverb. So it does, and It also helps a teacher to become formative. Travel is good for teachers professionally, be cause travel is a teacher itself. But travel is good for everybody who is hale and sane. “There’s fools o’ fowk what never haves their toes off their doorsteps, little brother," a gypsy said to me forty years ago. X am glad I have never been one of those.—J. H. Yoxall, M. P., in T. P.’s Weekly. Not Superstitious. “Do you believe in ghosts?” asked the man who resents all superstition. “No, suh,” answered Erastus Pink ley. “An’ all I’s hopin’ is dat dem ghos’es will lemme stay dat way ’stid o' cornin’ aroun’ tryin’ to convince me.” —Washington Star. A Different Proposition. Pompous Director (hotly)—Why did you refuse to give my son a fair chance to show what he could dot Don’t you believe in introducing young blood in the business?. Superintendent —I do, but not young bloods.—Puck. Out of the Usual. “I have something novel in the way of a melodrama.” "State your case.” “The blacksmith is a rascal, while the banker is as honest as the day is long!”—Louisville Courier-Journal Outspoken. Mrs. Garrulous—I was outspokeiTTn my sentiments at the club this after noon. Her Husband—I can't believe Jrou. Who outspoke you, rag, dear?— London Mail. x Happy is the man who does all the good he talks of.—Italian Proved*.

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OH, one -bright day in de middle er May, Brer Rabbit wuz feelin’ fine; He tuck ter de road, an' never know’d De place whar he wuz gwine I Oh, fur an* free,” sezee, airee, No gal kin change my min’t Brer Tarrypin, sly, he wunk one eye, Un’neat' his green-gourd vine! He holla‘an’ say, wnar you gwine ms day, Wid yd’ pipe an’ walkin’-cane Brer Rabbit wave his han’ like a gal do her fan— _ My heart’s *bout ter bust wid pain; So, off he put, on his nimbles’ foot, Wid a grin, a laugh, an’ a cough; Ter Miss Motts an’ Miss Meadows, an’ all de udders, Be tell what ’uz gwineter come off! ’Tv/uz a mill-pon' fishin’, an’ be lef’ urn a-wishin’ Dat de win’ don’t blow fum de norf! An’ de creeturs all, bofe long an’ tall— An’ dem no bigger dan a dwarf— Brer Wolf an’ Brer B’ar,—all say dey’d be dar, An’ dey promise fer ter fetch a seine; Dey ’gree ter de day, an’ Brer Rabbit say Dat dey don’t hatter come ef it rain; He look ag’in—“ She sho fell in, An’ we got ter git her out; Ef she stays in de pon’, it’s good-bye, John!’ An’ uv dat dey ain't no doubt; We got ter have light when we play at night, Fer ter see how ter git about; We’ll drag wid de seine—el we don’t drag in vain, We’ll have good reason ter shout I But wnen it come ter seimn oar wuz some compuumu 'Bout who wuz ter do it all, Dey all make out dat dey wan tar wade out, _ _But it fell on dcm dat win tall: __ 1-4 a heap too nice, 1 ain’t laugh’d but twice I Sence de big Jinawafy rain; Mm day’ll be done ef I don’t have some fun— Dev’ll call me Sunday-Jane! 4 “I’ll git sollumcholic ef I don’t have a frolic, My head’ll git flabby an’ swink; I chaw de pine-bud, kaze I’m ’bout ter lose my cud An’ some nights I don’t sleep a wink! Sti X nas ter set still, on, I’ll w’ar de green willow, An’ go in mo’nin’ wid de Mink! But I bet you a hat dat 'fo' I does dat, I'll show um all a new kiukl So said, so done, an’ when de time come, De big road ez well ez de lane Wuz filled wid a crowd, all talkin’ out loud, An’ a-prankin’ wid might an’ main 1 Brer Rabbit wuz dar, wid Miss Molly Har’, A-waitin' fer de fun ter begin; He shuck his shank, an* went ter de bank, An’ make like he gwineter jump in! bui ae signi aat ne saw made ’im drap us Jaw, i An’ break up a great big grin! j He sez ter Brer Coon, Run here an’ see de Moon! 1 A-floatin* widout a fin i Brer Wolf say he fear'd he’d fall, But he tuck his place wid a mighty wiy face, An* when dey 'gun ter haul. Oh, you better bet dls water’s wet! I tael des Hke a sponge!” An’ den dey all, wid a kick an’ a squall, Wid a squeal an’ den a lunge, irraDDea at ae water—wmcn aey naant ougnter Went ow dar heads wid a splunge; Brer Rabbit bent double, Oh, all er yo’ trouble Fills me full er fuo-unj-unjl M

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DESIGNS J* HOME5 ””~T DRESSMAKERS nERE are four practical designs for the home dressmaker— apron, nightgown, corset cover and skirt combined, and kimono. 166. Ladies' Corset Cover and Un derskirt Combined. Sizes for 32 to 44 Inches bust measure. Four yards of 36-inch material will be required for the 36-inch size. The design for a combination undergarment is some what unusual, as there Is absolutely no fulness at the waistline in the cor aet cover, while the upper part of the I front Is given an extra amount, being cut circular, without seams. For those who may prefer a separate waist and skirt, the garment may be cut at the waistline and finished separately. Cam bric, longcloth and nainsook are all used for the making. This season the Japanese house gown reigns supreme, and it has become a fad with fashionable women to pos sess a number of these dainty and pic turesque wraps. The one shown (715) is the simplest of garments to make, and may be in long or short length. Several materials, such as challis, cashmere, French flannel and silk are adapted to the mode. The medium size will require 7 yards V»f 36-inch material. f Ladle*' Tucked Kimono. No. 715. Sixes lor small, medium and large. The dainty nightgown ^906) is a particularly charming model made to slip on over the head. Batiste adorned with narrow Valenciennes I lace was chosen for the development. jjThe neck is cut in square outline, andfthe deep yoke affords an excellent plfece for a bit of hand embroidery, so njpch em ployed In the making of fine under- wear. The sleeves are In the fashion able bell shape, reaching to the elbow. Cambric, longcloth, nainsook and mus lin are all desirable materials to use, with lace and ribbon-run beading for the decoration. For 36-inch bust meas ure 6% yards of 36-inch material will be required. Ladles* Nightgown. No. 006. Slses for 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 Inches bust measure. The comfort and convenience of a work apron that covers the entire skirt is apparent at a glance to the woman who has little duties to perform about the house. The illustration (210) shows a garment of this kind made of linen. It requires but little time to make and is easily laundered. The skirt is gathered and attached to the belt, and the bib extends out over the shoulders in a very becoming manner. Holland, gingham, percale and linen are all suitable for the making. The medium else will require 3ti yards of 36-lnch material. Ladies’ Work Apron. No. 210. Sines for small, medium and large. Patterns will be sent to any address on receipt of ten cents each, by Mar jorie Dane, 45 West Thirty-fourth street, New York City. To avoid delay, do not fall to state else of psttern desired, and be snre to write name and address plainly, i Costumes in Linen and Lawn costumes this season go to f extremes. Either they are ex tremely tailored and severe, or extremely ornate and fluffy. For street, morning and athletic purposes, tailored lines appear, with trimming applied as to silk or cloth gowns. In the typ ical lingerie frock, princess lines pre vail with such masses of insertion, both embroidery and lace, that the term “tub frock” seems almost a misnomer, and the services of a dry-cleaner are more necessary than those of a laun dress. While many costumes of plain linen and lawn are noted for both morning and afternoon wear, some stunning ef fects in fine hair lin8 stripes, dots and bordered goods are also displayed. The woman who invests In a bordered ma terial must expect to patronize the dry-cleaner when her suit needs re freshing. Very few of the tinted bor ders will really wash. The exception, however, is the white fabric with a single tone striped border, and vice versa, tho single tone fabric with white border. For Instance, In linen you will find a white ground with a border of navy blue In bands of graduated width, or in pale blue lawn you will see a bor der made of diamonds in pure white. These bordered tub fabrics come in dress lengths of twelve yards each and the border appears about 46 or 47 inches apart, which for a short woman will admit of a princess effect The preferred trimming for tailored linen suits is braid and buttons. For dressy afternoon wear, coats and en tire suits are inset with quantities of heavy lace to which fancy wash braids and buttons are acjded. Wash braids come in many styles, from the narrow soutache and flat Her cules braids to marvelous combinations of cotton or linen braid and lace, the latter set on the edge or in medallions surrounded by braid. Buttons for trimming may be made from molds covered simply with linen like the Costume, or the linen may be criss-crossed with narrow braid, or the buttons may be crocheted or embroi dered. For very fussy frocks you see buttons covered with crocheting or 'ace or embroidery and then finished all the way round with a flat frilling or pleat ing of Val lace. Pink and blue In half a dozen shades, lavender, green and yellow are shown In linens for suits, but far smarter this season are the soft shades of grey and tan made up with heavy white lace or bias bands of self tone or even white. For tailored wash suits, pleated skirts, either with or without the yoke, according to the height of the wearer, and cutaway coats are shown. In more fussy costumes, the looser Louis coat is offered, with the circular skirt. SPANISH CREAM.—Beat the yolks of four eggs and four tablespoons of sugar together until very creamy. Cover half a box of gelatine with a lit tle milk to dissolve it. Heat one quart of milk to the boiling point, and add the dissolved gelatine, the eggs and sugar, and let it thicken, but do not let It boll. Remove from the fire, beat occasionally until perfectly cold. Then stir light In the whites of the four eggs, which have been beaten to a stiff froth, flavor with vanilla and set on the lee to cool. RIBBONS AND THEIR USES ON Att SORTS OP DAINTY ATTIRE OAINTY ribbon garnitures seem particularly suited to the spring season, and this year they are being used in charming variety. Faille ribbon has displaced taffetas for all purposes where a plain color is needed, while in fancy ribbons the pompadour effects remain in high fa vor. The tinsel ribbons which were popular during the winter are now passe, and, barring the pompadour de signs, the only fancy patterns shown are two weaves in the same color, per haps a satin polka dot on a faille ground, or vice-versa. Little or no moire ribbon is being used, but even on light-weight summer frocks, touches of the effective velvet ribbon may be seen. Enormous quantities of soft faille ribbon are used for millinery purposes, and eight yards are considered none too much for winding round the crown and making one of the new big bows. At the beginning of the season, flow ers almost crowded ribbons out of the millinery field, but the reaction in favor of bows has been pronounced. The bows are either long loops and many of them, or they are arranged in fat, thick choux or rose effects, with short, sharply notched ends behind the choux. For Panama hats come wondrous ribbon scarfs In soft, oriental colorings, or the pliable Italian or Roman striped scarfs and ribbons may be used for this purpose. While the lingerie or net tie is much used with the linen collar, for summer wear, and especially with the broad, turn-over collars affected by the out door girl, the soft ribbon tie or scarf will be much used. A very beautiful quality for this purpose is a soft gros graln with a satin edge of about an eighth to a quarter of an inch in self tone. The ribbon thus used is not tied in a bow but in a knot or four-in-hand effect. Ribbons for sashes are as soft as the looms can make them, and most of this seasons sashes are worn at the side or in the front as garnitures of the Em pire gown. Often the sash is laid in folds and tacked into place, like a high girdle all round the waist, then under the left side, It is drawn up torfgh, fas tened in a knot or chou, and alls, soft and sweeping, to the foot of he skirt. In net dresses these sashes ar made of net and ribbon in alternate si rips with an edging of net or lace all the way round. Beautiful fichus are sfiso made from shirred net or chiffon, alternat ing with soft ribbon, each si dp about an inch and a half or two ini ies wide. One of the smartest of ei :ra coats seen in a New York shop tl is spring was made from eight-inch p impadour ribbon, alternating with strli n of filet lace. Such coats are worn with thin lingerie dresses, and are moil effective when cut on Louis designs, ilte loose and straight of line. Ribbons in many graduat a widths are used for trimming the hems of skirts, to simulate borders. For In stance, on a stunning littl suit of brown and cream checked silk, the trimmings consisted of seve rows of brown ribbon velvet, startinj about an inch and a half in width at iflhe bottom and grading up to No. 2 at the top. Last season, the ribbons were applied In designs, particularly the Greek key design, but this season they are applied In one of two ways, either running straight around the skirt In graduated widths, or up and down, forming points or diamonds. Ribbon garnitures for the hair are long and sweeping, suggesting an os prey, and this means clever wiring. One of the handsomest new hair orna ments Is made from black velvet rib bon, cut and wired In perfect Imitation of the long pheasant tall feathers, with a rhinestone ornament where the long bows and ends met. The flat, pleated ruffs of raallne or lace are in once more, and these are fastened with long loops and ends of soft ribbons. Also faille ribbon Is made Into flat rose pleatlngs, finished with long loops and ends and worn so that the latter fall backward over the left shoulder. gome exquisite effects In bed jackets, fancy aprons and petticoats are shown with wash ribbon playing an important part. For wear under a chiffon or net gown, come wonderful petticoats with flounces of point desprit, decorated with narrow ribbons. If you have a white silk drop skirt which Is a trifle passe, make for It a flounce of the net, with white ribbon half or three-quar ters of an Inch wide, applied In tiny ruchlngs. Circles at regular Intervals, or interlacing diamonds or bow knots, all done In the fine ruchlng, are the simplest and most effective patterns. These ruffles can be bought ready made and they cost from $12.50 up. A deft flngered girl can make herself a "dream’’ for a third of the price. Some times, within the circles of ruchlng will be seen small artificial daisies such as are used for millinery pur poses, carefully applied with button hole stitcher. Dainty aprons and matinees are made from alternate strips of wash ribbon and Val lace. For the girl who wears flannel petticoats the year round, there Is nothing prettier than a ruffle of wash silk and lace, which, by the way, does not cling to the form as flan nel does. Care of Hands in Summer ERY often It Is the things that we do not do, rather than those we do, which make or mar a pretty hand. This is particularly true of the gir! who lives a sheltered life all winter and goes to a summer resort for the warm months. The city girl thinks It smart to drive a team of farm horses without gloves, and when her hands are blistered she runs to the local druggist for a patented cure. It would be much easier to don a pair of large gloves and protect the hands, rather than experi ment with unknown lotions. One of the most baneful practices among young girls is the indiscrimi nate use of highly scented soaps In nine cases out of ten these eat up the natural oil of the skin and leave it rough. Use only warm water, and soft water, with a plain, unscented pure soap. If the water is hard, add a few drops* of benzoin to it. If the hands are stained, use lemon Juice. Do not, as I saw a young girl do not long since, take a bottle of peroxide of hydrogen from the shelf and literally pour it over the tips of her fingers to remove berry stains. Within the next two or three days most of her finger nails broke oft. If saap does not agree with your hands, try using the following almond meal In its place. It will tend to keep the skin soft and white: Bitter almond meal. 6 ounces Orris root (powdered). 4 ounces Wheat flour 4 ounces White castile soap (pow dered) 1 ounce Borax (powdered) 1 ounce Oil of bergamot. 2 drachms Extract of musk. 1 drachm Oil of bitter almonds.10 drops Mix all the powders thoroughly and sift them before adding the perfumes. Stir them ir and sift a second time. Keep in close-shut Jars. It Is conve nient to keep a small quantity on the wash stand In a Jar with a perforated top so that the powder can be shaken out upon the hand or doth when used. Certain physical conditions cause ab normal perspiration In the hands, mak ing them cold to the touch and keeping them moist, thereby ruining gloves of any sort. The following lotion is very efflcaclou3 for arresting this condition. It can also be used on the face In warm weather to absorb excessive greasiness: Rosewater, 6 ounces; elder-flower water, 2 ounces; simple tincture of ben zoin, ounce; tannic acid, 10 grains. This lotto;-, should be well rubbed into the skin, and if gloves are-to be put on Immediately, It Is well to powder the hands with talcum. Mingled with the delights of picking wild flowers in the woods, Is the danger of coming In contact with poison Ivy. This obnoxious vine grows in the most unexpected places, and to some skins Its contact means weeks of suffering. If treatment Is given immediately the inflammation can oftimes be allayed. As soon as you reach home, bathe the affected parts in a solution of one quart of lime water In which has been dissolved a teaspoon of soda. If the pain is intense, add a few drops of laudanum. If you are far from a drug store and cannot get these remedies, bathing with strong buttermilk is sometimes very efficacious, and good results have been obtained from rub bing fresh and very thick cream into the skin. But all of these remedies should not be applied at once. The girl who has abused her hands by digging in the garden, or by help ing with the house cleaning, and has neglected that much needed protection of an old pair of gloves while at such work, will need a paste which will work a 1 urried cure. This paste Is in valuable to the girl in business who has Just two weeks' vacation and whose hands have become roughened from climbing, driving, picking wild flowers. It will tend to whiten and soften the hands with the least possi ble delay. At night literally spread the hands with a thick coating of this cream, then draw on a pair of old gloves several sizes too large, and in the morning wash In warm water and pure white soap. Myrrh, 1 ounce; honey, 4 ounces; yel low wax, 2 ounces; rosewater, 6 ounces. Melt the wax InM double boiler over a very slow flr»,T,ut do not let It boll, Just melt; no» add the myrrh, which must be 1lj powdered form. Beat these two lngB&ents to gether thoroughly, then Hr In the honey and the rosewater. Wien, drop by drop, add enough glycerine to make a "spreadable paste," beatln# the mix ture constantly. Tanning, sunburn and n ekles are muoh easier to prevent thah to cure. If the skin of your hands IS sensitive, rub It with cold cream before you start outdoors, or wear a thin e [lk glove. There Is no heat In silk glot es, and If worn sufficiently large, they leave the hand quite as free as If It pere bare. The simple home remedies t‘ r tanning and sunburn are quite as gt od as the patented articles, put up ur fler fancy names and sold for fancier prices. Washing the hands In fresh tjutter.-nilk Is very good. American women are generally In such a hurry that few of tljem really take time to dry their hands properly. If they would not put the totyel on the rack until they were perfectly sure that their hands were absolutely dry, as a nation they would hay*, prettier hands, and softer skin the Whole year round. .4. TAPIOCA CUSTARD.—Put ja pint of rich milk and two tablespoons of line tapioca Into a double boiler, and cook slowly until the tapioca IS Q<|tte trans parent. To this add the yolfks of two eggs well beaten, mljgpd with a pinch of salt and three tablespoon's of sugar. Stir this and let it cook sjcwty until thickened. When the custar 1 la quite done, add the whites of the e igs which have been beaten to a stilt 1 roth, take from the Are and beat until <gulte cool, and add half a teaspoon of vanilla ex tract. If lump or pearl tapiopa Is used It should be soaked for sev^^al hours before using. If the top of (this pud ding Is dotted with crabappje jelly it adds much to the appearanei and the flavor. Fresh Salads for Summer Dinners OHE summer dinner Is never com plete without a fresh salad, the colder and crisper the better. Vegetable salad Is also a welcome ad dition to a hot lunch or a Sunday night tea. When meat Is cut out of the hot, wet weather menu, olive oil In the salad dressing takes its place. Mayonnaise dressing Is hard to make In summer and rather heavy for vege table salads. Substitute for this a French dressing or boiled dressing. Boiled Dressing! Stir together In a porcelain or agate bowl, one-half ta blespoon of salt, one-half tablespoon of mustard, three-fourths of a tablespoon of sugar, one egg that has been beaten until the yolk and white are blended but not until It Is foamy. Add slowly two and one-half tablespoons of melted butter, and three-fourths of a cupful of very thin cream or rich milk. When these are thoroughly mixed, add care fully and slowly one-fourth of a cup of vinegar. Set your bowl In a pan of boiling water and stir the dressing steadily until it thickens to the con sistency of thin custard. Strain through hair strainer and set away to cool. Tomato Cupsi Pour boiling water over six firm tomatoes of medium slse; skin and set away to chill. When quite cold, scoop out the hearts of the to mato, leaving a thick shell. Mix the firm pieces of tomato which you have scooped out with an equal quantity of hard-boiled eggs, and a saltspoon of onion Juice. Add to this mixture boiled salad dressing, pack it back into the tomato cups, sprinkle the top with finely chopped white of egg, and serve each tomato on a crisp lettuce leaf. Cucumber Saluilt The theory of soak ing cucumbers in salt water until they become flaccid and tasteless has been exploded by capable housekeepers. Herewith is given the best way of serving cucumber salad. Pick over head lettuce and select crisp, flat leaves. Arrange on a platter. Have your cucumbers and an onion Ice cold. Pare and slice both very thin, using a fourth as much onion as you do cu cumber. Arrange these on the bed of lettuce, pour French dressing over them and serve immediately. Potato and Beet Snladi Cut cold boiled potatoes into thin slices; add one-fourth as many cold boiled beets, cut Into cubes; mix them lightly with a little onion chopped very fine. To each potato allow about a saltspoon of chopped onion. Mix with boiled dress ing and garnish with parsley. Economy Eggs,—The foundation of this dish is cold boiled potatoes. Se lect large potatoes and cut thick slices lengthwise, so you have the largest oval possible. Have ready some boiling hot lard or clarified fat Drop Into this the potato ovals and cook until golden brown. Drain thor oughly. Arrange on a hot platter with a rasher or two of bacon cut thin and cooked very crisp, on each slice of potato. Then poach an egg for each person, and lay this on a slice of po tato with the rasher of bacon in be tween. A sprig of parsley on one side, and you have a very tasty service. Be sure your poached eggs are drain ed very dry, as the rasher of bacon and potato should be very crisp. Mixed Fruits,—Every refrigerator has its quota of fresh fruit left-overs. Perhaps you have a bit of pineapple left from last night’s dinner, either cut in blocks or shredded. With this mix banana, cut in dice, a few straw berries, and over all squeeze a goodly measure of orange juice. Serve very cold in glasses or sherbet cups. CHOCOLATE CUSTARDS.—Melt a square of baker’s chocolate In three tablespoons of sugar in a double boiler; add a quart of milk. When warm, pour over five eggs, white and yolks beaten together. Pour this Into small earthen cups or a pudding dish. Whichever Is used, set the receptacle Into a pan of boiling water and bake in a moderate oven until firm. A pinch of salt and half a teaspoon of vanilla will improve the flavor of this dish. frivolity in footwear @VERI season bring* some fresh freak or fad for the summer girl, and this year it is foot wear. Never in the history of fashion have we had such frivolities in shoes and sllppars, such variety in shapes, such vividness in tints. And in this respect, footwear is a matter of evolution. We started with white canvas footwear for the summer girl, got around to fancy spats or gaiters for thj fall girl, cloth tops to match frocks for the winter girl, and here we are, plunged in real footwear frivolities for summer, 1908. First in the lisf of frivolous things come the patent leather vamps with uppers to match the gown exactly. You can have this in cloth or leather. That is If your frock is of lavender silk encrusted with lace, your shoes will be high, with patent leather vamps and uppers of lavender cloth or leather, the patent in either the kid glove or suede finish. Next to the highly tinted uppers come pumps of black patent leather with a band of cloth or vividly tinted leather around the Instep. This may match the frock, or, for general wear, it may be of vivid yellow chamois. For house wear, you will see patent leather pumps finished with bands of tinsel ribbon, silver, gold or copper. White canvas shoes have given way at really smart summer resorts to pumps, and tie* In natural colored chamois skin, or patent leather with chamois skin in combination. Among the novelties noted for house wear are slippers of brocade, with a rose or other flower at the point of the shoe, outlined with iridescent beads, gold, silver or pearl or rhinestone. Three straps appear on these slippers with buckles to match the beading or jeweling on the toe. Another conceit showed a slipper of softest brown suede picked out with a pattern in to paz, while an exquisite grey suede slip per was studded with opals and had opals in the buckles. A great deal of white beading is used to trim both black and brown shoes, and brown suede ties with buck les of copper were worn by a smartly frocked girl at a recent studio tea. By contrast, hosiery worn with these fancy shoes and pumps is ex tremely plain. Solid colors in fine lisle and silk come to match all the new shades In costume fabrics, but the open-work stocking and its gaily em broidered cousin have retired in the face of the very frivolous shoes._ PIANO GreatestVadue? m“ The largest retail D.ano business in the world has been built up by us in the past 45 years. Let us send you free information and prices of 20 leading makes. Also new plan °r.easJ ^fty’ ments. Pianos ETS?fl ral shippedevery where. Wo F iWIvl £!v® ab,°1“tf guarantee of highest musf cal qualities. All prices wonderfully reasonable. Special Bargains. 12 second-hand Steinway Up rights.3Webers,2 Lyon* Healys.6 Washburns, rebuilt in our factory equal to new, at very low 8rices. Teachers and students would appreciate lese instruments. Write today. LYON HEALY Is Adams Street. CHICAGO_ PATENTS THAT PROTECT —Our three books for inventors mailed on receipt of six cents stamps R. S A. B. 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