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I THE SPENDERS ATak of the Third Generation By HARRY LEON WILSON ^ # " * Copyright, by Lothrop Publishing Company. $T CHAPTER XIL--Contikckd. ^ %a the far night, when he awoke to isudden and hungry aloneness, he would Set his arms feel their hunger for her. ; The vision of her would be flowers and music and sunlight and time and all -things perfect to mystify and delight, : «to satisfy and--greatest of all boons-- •to unsatlsfy. The thought of her be- , came a rest house for all weariness; a | 'haven where ne was free to choose his nook and lie down away from all that was not her, which Was all that was not beautiful. He would go back to ^seek the lost sweetness of their first ! meeting; to mount the poor dead belief ! 'that she would care for him--that he : vcould make her care for him--and en- ; -dow the thing with artificial life, try­ ing to capture the faint breath bf it; -but the memory was always fleeting, .-attenuated, like the spirit of the mem­ ory of a perfume that had been elusive At best And always, to banish what ; Joy even this poor device might bring, came the more vivid vision of the : ifcrutal, sordid facts, He forced himself «to face them regularly as a penance sand a corrective. They came before him with especial •clearness when he met her from time <to time during the winter. He watched &er in talk with others, noting the con­ tradiction in her that she would .at .one moment appear knowing and mas­ terful, with depths of reserve that the •other people neither fathomed nor Ifcnew of; and at another moment frank- iy girlish, with an appealing feminine helplessness which is woman's great­ est strength, coercing every strong jnasculine Instinct. When the reserve showed in her, he ifcecame afraid. What was she not •capable of? In the other mood, frank­ ly appealing,, she drew him mightily, «o that he abandoned himself for the moment, responding to her fresh ex­ ulting youth, longing to take her, to give her things, to make her laugh, to <enfold and protect her, to tell her se- •cretB, to feather her cheek with the softest kiss, to be the child-mate of her. Toward him, directly, when they met <she would sometimes be glacial and forbidding, sometimes uninterestedly frank, as if they were but the best of -commonplace friends. Tet sometimes rfihe made him feel that she, too, threw lerself heartily 10 rest in the thougnt •x>f their loving, and cheated herself, as lie did, with dreams of comradeship. ."She left him at these times with the rfeeling that they were dea$, dumb and blind to each other; that if some means rof communication could be devised, something surer than the invisible Ulay of secret longings, all might yet be well. They talked as the people .about them talked, words that meant nothing to either, and if there were mute questionings, naked appeals, un- uttered declarations, they were only ssuch as language serves to divert at­ tention from. Speech, doubtless, has its uses as well as its abuses. Politics, for example, would be less entertain­ ing without it But in matters of the heart, certain it Is that there would be fewer misunderstandings if it were forbidden between the couple under tthe penalty of immediate separation. .In this affair real meanings are rarely conveyed except by silences. Words 'are not more than tasteless drapery to obscure their lines. The silence of 'lovers is the plainest of all speech, -warning, disconcerting indeed, by its verjn bluntness, any but the truly mated. An hour's silence with these *two people by themselves might have "worked wonders. CHAPTER XIII. " THB DISTRESSING ADVENTURE OF MRS. BINES. The fame of the Bines family for •despising money was not fed wholly fcy Percival's unremitting activities, fllss Psyche Bines, during the winter, •achieved wide and enviable renown •as a player of bridge whist. Not for 'the excellence of her play; rather for •the Inveteracy and size of her losses and the unconcerned cheerfulness with which she defrayed them. She .paid the considerable sums with an •air of gratitude for having been per­ mitted to lose them. Especially did .she seem grateful for the zealous tutelage and chaperonage of Mrs. Drelmer. "Everybody In New York plays bridge, my dear, and of course you must learn," that capable lady had ?aaid in the beginning. "But 1 never was bright at cards," •ithe girl confessed, "and I'm afraid I •couldn't learn bridge well enough to (interest you good players." "Nonsense!" was Mrs. Drelmer's •assurance. "Bridge Is easy to learn and easy to play. I'll teach you, and I promise you the people you play -with shall never complain." Mrs. Drelmer, it soon appeared, &new what she was talking about. Indeed, that well-informed woman -was always likely to. Her husband •was an intellectual delinquent whom tfitje spoke of largely as being "in Wall -•street," and in that feat of jugglery known as "keeping up appearances" 2iis wife had long been the more dex­ trous performer. She was apt not only to know what ashe talked about, but she was a worn- -«n of resource, unafraid of action. :She drilled Miss Bines in the rudi- tnents of bridge. If the teacher be- *came subsequently much the largest winner of the pupil's losings, it was, %j>erhaps, not more than her fit recom­ pense. For Miss Bines enjoyed not •only the sport of the game, but her --manner of playing it, combined with '<ithe social prestige of her amiable ^sponsor, procured her a circle of ac­ quaintances that would otherwise tiave remained considerably narrower. An enthusiastic player of bridge, of passable exterior, mediocre skill, and unlimited resources, need never want In New York for very excellent so- •doty. Not only was the western girl received by Mrs. Drelmer's lmmedi-t circle. of what the lady called "that snubby set" would now and then a place for her at the card- A few of Mrs. Drelmer's inti­ mates were so wanting in good taste as to intimate that she exploited Miss Bines even to the degree of an un­ derstanding expressed in bald per­ centage, with certain of those to whom she secured the girl's society at cards. Whether this ill-natured gossip was true or false, it is certain that the exigencies of life on next to nothing a year, with a husband who could boast of next to nothing but family, had developed an unerring business sense in Mrs. Drelmer; and certain it also is that this winter was one when the appearances with which she had to strive were un- wontedly buoyant. Miss Bines tirelessly memorized rules. She would disclose to her placid mother that the lead of a trump to the third hand's go-over of hearts is of doubtful expediency; or that one must "follow suit with the smallest, except when you have only two, neither of them better than the Jack. Then frlay the higher lust so that when the lower falls your partner may know you are out of the suit, and ruff it." Mrs. Bines declared that It did seem to her very much like 'out-and- out gambling. But Percival, looking over the stubs of his sister's check­ book, warmly protested her inno­ cence of this charge. •'Heaven knows Sis has her short­ comings," he observed, patronizing­ ly, in that, young woman's presence, "but she's no gambler; don't say it, ma, I beg of you! She only knows five rules of the game, and I judge it's cost her about $3,000 each to learn *hose. And the only one she never forgets is: 'When in doubt, lead your highest check.' But don't 4peer accuse her of gambling. Poor girl, if she keeps on playing bridge she'll have writer's cramp; that's all I'm afraid of. I see there's a new rapid-fire check-book on the market, and an improved fountain pen that doesn't slobber. I'll have to get her one of each." Yet Psyche Bines' experience, like her brother's, was nOt without a proper leaven of sentiment. There was Fred Milbrey, handsome, clever, amusing, knowing everyone, and giv­ ing her a pleasant sense of intimacy with all that was worth while in New York. Him she felt very friendly to. Then there was Mauburn, presently to be Lord Casselthorpe, with his lazy, high-pitched drawl; good-na BARON RONAULT DE PALLIAC. tured, frank, carrying an atmosphere of high-class British worldliness, and delicately awakening within her while she was with him a sense of her own latent superiority to the institutions of her native land. She liked Mau­ burn, too. More impressive than either of these, however, was the Baron Ronault de Palliac. Tall, swarthy, saturnine, a polished man of all the world, of manners finished, elaborate and ceremonious, she found herself feeling foreign and distinguished in his pressnce, quite as if she were the heroine of a*sromantic novel, and might at any instant be called upon to assist in royalist intrigues. The baron, to her intuition, nursed secret sorrows. For these she secretly wor­ shiped him. It is true that when he dined with her and her mother, which he was frequently gracious enough to do, he ate with a heartiness that be­ lied this secret sorrow she had im­ agined. But he was fascinating at all times, with a grace at table not less finished than that with which he bowed at their meetings and partings. It was not unpleasant to think of basking daily in the shine of that grand manner, even if she did feel friendlier with Milbrey, and more at ease with Mauburn. If the truth must be told, Miss Bines was less impressionable than either of the three would have wished. Her heart seemed not easy to reach; her impulses were not inflammable. Young Milbrey early confided to his family a suspicion that she was sin­ gularly hard-headed, and the definite information that she had "a hob­ nailed wester^ way" of treating her admirers. -a > * Mauburn, too, toiis Shrewd enough to see that, while she frankly liked him, he was for some reason less a favorite than Baron de Palliac. "It'll be no easy matter marrying that girl," he told Mrs. Drelmer. "She's really a dear, and awfully good fun, but she's not a bit silly, and I dare say she'll marry some chap be­ cause she likes him, and not because he's anybody, you know." "Make her like you," Insisted his adviser. "On my word, I wish she did. And I'm not so sure, you know, she doesn't fancy that Frenchman, or even young Milbrey." "I'll keep you before her,'1 promised Mrs.' Drelmer, "and I wish you'd not think you can't win her. 'Tisn't like you." Miss Bines accordingly heard that it was such a pity young Milbrey drank so, because his only salvation lay in making- a rich marriage, and a young man, nowadays, had to keep fairly sober to accomplish that. Really, .Mnkifrsinsarfait "BWCONTiMciiij the peer weak fellow. "Good-hearted, chap, but he has no character, my dear, so I'm afraid there's no hope for him. He has the soul of a mer­ chant tailor, actually, but not the tailor's manhood. Otherwise he'd bo above marrying some unsuspecting girl for her money and breaking heir heart after marriage. Now, Mauburn is a type so different; honest, unaf* fected, healthy--really he's a man for any girl to be proud of, even if he were not heir to a title--one of the beet in all England, and an ornament of the most exclusively correct set; of a line, my dear, that is truly great not like that shoddy French nobili­ ty, discredited in France, that sends so many of its comic-opera barons htire looking for large dowries to pay their gambling debts and put furni­ ture in their rattle-trap old chateaux, and keep them in absinthe and their other peculiar diversions. And Mau­ burn, you lncky minx, simply adores you--he's quite mad about you, - really!" In spite of Mrs.»Drelmer's two-edged sword, Miss Bines continued rather more favorable to the line of De Pal­ liac. The baron was so splendid, so gloomy, so deferential. He had the air of laying at her feet, as a rug, the whole glorious history of France; And he appeared so well in the vic­ toria when they drove in the park. It is true that the heart of Miss Bines was as yet quite untouched; and it was not more than a cool, dim, esthetic light in which she surveyed the three suitors impartially, to be­ hold the impressive figure of the 'baron towering above the others. Had the baron proposed for her hand, it is not Impossible that, facing the question directly, she would have par­ ried or evaded. For certain events befell unpropi­ tiously at a time when the baron was most certain of his conquest; at the very time, indeed, when he had de­ termined to open his suit definitely by extending a proposal to tbo young lady through the orthodox medium of her nearest male relative. "I admit," wrote the baron to his expectant father, "that it is what one calls 'very chances' in the - English, but one must venture in this country, and your son is not without much hope.. And if not, there is still Mile. Higbee." The baron shuddered as he wrote it. . He preferred not to recognize even the existence of this alternative, for the reason that the father of Mile. Higbee distressed him by an incom­ pleteness of suavity. < "He conducts himself like a pork," the baron would declare to himself, by way of perfecting his English. The secret cause of his subsequent determination not to propose for the han£ of Miss Bines lay in the hope­ lessly middle-class leanings of the lady who might have incurred the su­ preme honor of becoming his mother- in-law. Had Mrs. Bines been above talking to low people, a catastrophe might have been averted. But Mr3. Bines was not above it. She was quite unable to repress a vulgar in­ terest In the menials that served her. * She knew the butler's life history two days after she had ceasod to ^be afraid of him. She knew the distress­ ing family affairs of the maids; how many were the ignobls progeny of the elevator man, and what his plebeian wife did for their croup; how much rent the hall-boy's low-born father paid for his mean two-story dwelling in Jersey City; and how many hours a day or night the debased scrub­ women devoted to their unrefining -toil. ' ; Brazenly, too, she held converse with Philippe, the active and voluble Alsatian who served her when she chose to dine in th« public restau- fant instead of at her own private ta­ ble. Philippe acquainted her with the joys and griefs of his difficult pro­ fession. There were 14,000 waiters ia New York, if, by waiters, you meant anyone. Of course there were not so many like Philippe, men of the world who had served their time as assistants and their three years as sub-waiters; men who spoke English, French and German, who knew some­ thing of cooking, how to dress a salad, and how to carve. Only such, it ap­ peared, could be members of the ex­ clusive Geneva club that procured a place for you when you were idle, and paid you eight dollars a week when you were sick. Having the qualifications, ope could earn $2 > a month in salary, and three or four times as much in gratui­ ties. Philippe's income was never less than ¥120 a month; for was he not one who had come from Europe as a master, after two seasons at Paris, where a man acquires his pol­ ish--his perfection of manner, , his finish, his grace? Philippe could never enough prize that post-graduate course at the Maison d'Or, where he had personally known -- madame might not believe it--the incompar­ able Casmir, a chef who served two generations of epicures, princes, kingB, statesmen, traveling Americans --all the truly great. With his own lips Casmir had told him, Philippe, of the occasion when Dumas, pefe, had invited him to din­ ner that they might discuss the esoterics of salad dressing and sauces; also of the time when Mar quis de St. Georges embraced Casmir for inventing the precious soup that afterwards became famous as Postage Germine. And now the Bkilled and puissant Casmir had retired. It was a calamity. The Maison d'Or--Paris --would no longer be what they had been. For that matter, since one must live, Philippe preferred it to be in America, for in no other country could an adept acquire so much money. And Philippe knew the whole dining world. With Celine and the baby, Paul, Philippe dwelt in an apartment that would really amaze madame by its appointments of luxury, in East TKirty-eighth street, and only the four flights to climb. And Paul was three, the largest for his ago, quite the largest, that either Philippe or. Celine had ever beheld. Even the brother of Celine and his wife, who had a restaurant of their own--serv­ ing the table d'hote at two and one- half irancs the plate, with wine--even these swore they had nsver seen aa infant so big, for his years, as Paul. EVOLUTION OF AN INVENTION. 8lmple Way In Which the Knot-Tying Part ofHarvester Was- Developed. The popular Idea that an inventor must be a heaven-born genius, that the faculty of Inventing can not be cultivated, and that inventions are made spontaneously by their inventors and wholly out of their imagination, is pronounced a delusion by Edwin I. Prindle, in a paper read before the American Institute of Electrical En­ gineers at Milwaukee, Wis. Said Mr. Prindle: . "It is undoubtedly .true that every Inventor must have some inventive; or Essential Parts of the Cord Knotter. creative faculty; but this faculty may be greatly assisted by knowing how. While reasoning can not constitute the whole of the inventive act, it can, so to speak, clear the way for it and render It easier of accomplishment. "Most of all, inventions are an evo­ lution from some previously invented form. 'The mind always thinks of the unknown in terms of the known.' "This evolution of an invention is more or less logical, and is often worked out by logical processes to such an extent that the really cre­ ative work is greatly reduced as com­ pared with what it would be if done by the imagination alone. Edison Is quoted as saying: 'Any man can be­ come an inventor If he has imagina­ tion and pertinacity;' that" invention is not so much inspiration as per­ spiration.' The speaker then explained how he1 conceived three typical inventions had been evolved. To quote The Sen­ tinel's abstract; "The first of these was the first au­ tomatic valve gear for the steam en­ gine, the invention of a boy, Humph­ rey Potter. The second example of the evolution of an invention was that of a machine known as the cal- culagraph, which is used for calculat­ ing and recording the charge on most of the toll telephone messages in the United States. It will automatically subtract the time of day when the message began from the time of day when it ceased, and record the elapsed time, and will dp this on the one ma­ chine for Any number of overlapping messages. The third example was the evolution of the knot-tying parts of a self-binding harvester. The speaker showed how the inventor first chose a simple form of knot and then studied the tying of it with his hands until he had devised a way by which he could tie it with the use of only two fingers of one hand. One of the fingers had a simple rotary move­ ment with the arm, and the other fin­ ger had, beside the rotary movement a simple opening and closing mova ment toward and away from the first finger, to grasp the cord at a certain period in the revolution. Mr. Prindle went through these operations with his own fingers and tied knots to Il­ lustrate these motions. With this ex­ haustive and ingenious consideration of his problem the inventor had only a simple piece of mechanism to pro­ duce to accomplish his purpose. The mechanism really only consisted of two mechanical fingers on a shaft, and a cam for working the clamping finger." how Animals Doctor Themselves. Man might often* take from the lower animals a lesson as to the care of himself when ill. All sorts of ani­ mals suffering from fever eat little, lie quiet in dark, airy^ places, and drink quantities of water. When a dog loses his appetite he knows where to find chiendent--dog-grass--which acts as a purgative and emetic. Sheep and cows, when ill, seek cer­ tain herbs. Any animal suffering from chronic rheumatism keeps as far as possible in the sun. If a chim­ panzee be wounded he has been seen to stop the bleeding by a plaster oti chewed-up leaves and grass. | American Sewing Machines. Over 10,000 patents have been takeo out on sewing machines. American sewing machines are now sold in every country in the world. They are used for all manner of purposes, for making boots and shoes, awnings, tents and sails, and some of( them have an 18 foot bed. Some machines are made for sewing carpet and can sew as much carpet as 100 hand sew­ ers. They are also used to make bags, corsets, hats, caps, gloves, mit­ tens, pocketbooks, saddlery and har­ ness. Showed Big Savlfj®!,, A writer in the American Machinist stated recently that a steam pipe of Blx inches to eight inches diameter was covered with a wooden box of 12 inches diameter which was filled with a sawdust mortar, one barrel of lime to five of sawdust. Before covering the pipe--nearly 700 feet in length-- it condensed 1,440 pounds Of water hourly; after covering It condensed 195 pounds hourly. New Tunnel Route. * A.new tunnel route is proposed Con­ necting New York, Brooklyn and Ho- boken, to be used by steam roads to New York. What is pronounced by leading gas engine experts to be the acme of gas engine construction has just been at­ tained by John J. Hogan, a modest and practical mechanical engineer of New York city, in the invention and successful construction of a rotary gas engine, which by its simplicity, its Inexpensive construction and the small space which it occupies, com- blned with its great power, is certain to revolutionize not only the construc­ tion and the price of automobiles and power boats, but all sorts of methods of supplying power where engines of intricate and cumbersome construc­ tion and great price are impractical, says the New York Herald. For years Mr. Hogan has watched the development of the automobile and the power boat. He has spent no end of time in the construction and operation of .gas propelled vehicles, yet he has never been satisfied. And just when the automobile manufac­ turers, who have expended millions in trying io solve the problem of sim­ plifying and perfecting . the construc­ tion and Operation of the prppellers that are sending the automobiles whizzing through city streets and over country roads, have seemingly reached their limit, he has evolved the "little giant, which engineers, say is destined to do vhat automobile and power vehicle manufacturers have sought for years to accomplish. So simple and compact is the motor that the observer involuntarily be­ speaks his amazement at the possi­ bility of its power and effectiveness. Occupying a space which makes it easily portable in an ordinary grip sack and weighing but 68 pounds, the engine can be easily transported by a person of ordinary strength. With­ in the fly wheel which is but twelve inches in diameter, are contained the cylinder, the piston, the crank and all the mechanism with the exception of the little carbureter which supplies the mixture of gas and air. And this with the lubricating oil cup, also out­ side, could easily be contained in one's two hands. Yet when the mixture of ga^fAene and air was supplied and the fly wheel started by a turn of the hand, the lit­ tle engine showed something or its power as it became a thing of action. Contained within its small space when the small fly wheel revolves Is energy measured at eight and two- tenths horsepower. This was meas­ ured accurately by the application of a brake, and left no doubt in the mind of the observer as to the possibilities of the wonderful little machine. The motor is so constructed that the explosions of the mixture of gas Linen bags, either in white or col­ ors, and embroidered in the owner's own monogram, are one of the latest whims of fashion, and a very sensible one it is, for these bags not only give a finishing touch to the linen cos­ tume, but can be put In the tub al­ most as often as the gown Itself. The possibilities of short lengths of ribbon and lace, bits of linen, lawn or silk are simply wonderful, if they happen to fall into skilled hands, while even the veriest amateur can produce really charming results, sup­ posing her taste is good, and all at little or no cost beyond industry. While you are planning the thingB to take with you on your summer trip don't forget to make a laundry bag or two. A gayly printed cretonne bag fQr closet or room door (if you are pressed for space) is a booh, and what is even more satisfactory is a big bag made of white or unbleached muslin, in which to send the clothes away. Itj should be plainly marked with your name written in indelible ink.' Those who make their afghans will be delighted with the number of pret­ ty stitches that are being used this year. There is the biscuit stitch, which is raised, and on the right side looks like a series of narrow buns, about half an inch wide and two inches long. The reverse side, show­ ing these biscuits hollow, is not so attractive. Made in browns,-from a deep nut shade to a light tan, this stitch may be worked into a really beautiful coverlid. -- Chicago .Daily News. . .> ALL OVER THE STATE, PEARLS IN AMBRAW RIVI Regular Search Being Made Along tfl» ; Stream for Valuable Shells--? t Many Fine Specimens Have Been Found. • COLORING IN MILK, Utah Food Commissioner Tells How } ' It May Be Detected. There are several ways, according to John Peterson, food commissioner of Utah, in which the presence of col­ oring matter in milk may be detected. If an aniline dye has been added to give a rich, creamy appearance to thin, blue milh, a little vinegar mixed with the milk, after first heating the latter, will produce curds of a dis­ tinctly orange hue. If caramel has been employed the curds will turn brown with the addition of the vine­ gar. Whenever milk or cream is al­ lowed to stand in a clear glass bottle for 12 hours or more It will separate into watery and creamy layers. If the lower layer is yellow it is a proof of the presence of artificial coloring of some sort and whenever milk or cream Is kept in a warm place for 48 hours, and still remains sweet, it is pretty safe to assume that a preserv­ ative has been used. In fact, the keeping sweet of many an article of food under conditions which should make it spoil or ferment readily Is a sign that the thing in questoln has been tampered with. Charleston.--That pearls abound taiSI the Ambraw, river two miles east o€S ^ this city, in sufficient quantities pay to organise a regular search for ;v ^ them, Is the belief of the majority of |J|.' people along the stream. Recently §1J: parties frequenting the river have * found a number of fine specimens in " the musse! shells that line the banks of the stream and are easily accessi-. ble at low water. A stock company is being talked .of to find and deal is these valuable products of tlte mussel % shell. The Rotary Qas Motor. and air cause the cylinder and the other parts to rotate around a sta­ tionary crank shaft at the center of the fly wheel. The operation of the engine is such that the shock, which has been a problem to gas engine con­ structors, is absorbed and the vibra­ tion is therefore reduced to a mini­ mum. This makes the engine more practicable, for the uses to which it will be put, than the present bulky motors. , EFFECT OF LIGHT WAVES* For the Home Dressmaker. Not a few home dressmakers over­ look the fact- that when putting on a collar the neck of the bodice or bloase should be slightly smaller • than the base of the collar band and the bodice notched here and there whj'le putting the collar on. By do­ ing this wrinkles are avoided. Again, whijn cutting out sleeves, to avoid the disaster of cutting both for th«i sait.e arm, fold the material either fact to face or back to back. Place the pattern on It and cut both to- gettier. A proper pair of sleeves is bou«ad to be the result. Make the under part of the sleeve double, so that It can be darned, as this wears out sooner than the up­ per. Don't forget to do plenty of tacking and pressing. To neglect these two points stamps a garment as "home-made" at once. Always Bhrink a new braid before sewing to a skirt In shortening a skirt pattern, too, always fold a plait across the middle of the pattern. Never shorten from the top or bot­ tom of the skirt, or the shape will be spoiled,. A rolling-pin, with a cloth round* It, makes a good pressing board. Their 8ize Determines the Limit of the Power of the Mlscroscope. How sharp an eye luw the micros? cope? What man's eye can see is limited to objects. That which the microsoope can reveal usually has been considered to be beyond finite limit. But, as Prof. Abbe reminds us, the size of the light waves necessar­ ily must set a boundary to cur Inspec­ tion of minute structure. This limit is first reached by .the waves emitted by the red end of the spectrum, which are about twice as long as those emitted by the violet end. From which it follows that by using violet light we may hope to image objects half as small as those which would be recognizable by red light. Here it is that photography's help always will be of supreme value, in­ asmuch as the violet rays, optically considered, are so feeble that the hu­ man eye cannot see minute micros­ copic objects by this weak illumina­ tion. It is possible that ultimately the ultra-violet or "dark" rays simi­ larly may be exploited. Mrs. Catherine Corkins Dead. " ; Sullivan.--Mrs. Catherine Kliver* : Corkins died at the home of her® daughter, M$s. J. R. McClure, aged 81 .ki years and 20 days. She was married to Veranus C. Corkins March 29, 1844»^ She was the mother of seven children, three of whom have preceded h^r in d e a t h , a s a l s o h a s t h e h u s b a n d . T h e ' surviving children are Frank Corkinsf, of Clinton, John Corkins of Columbus,® O.; Mrs. Clara Tassett of Buffalo, N. Y., and Mrs. J. R. McClure of Sulli­ van. >, "~l "• • . *•" 1 *i - Murdered by Insane Man. '<;/ Batavia.--Driven insane by the heat- In which he had been working, Emit Berner arose early, killed his brother- v in-law, Ernest Franzen, with a razor while he slept, fatally wounded hi» wife and then cut his own throat. Berner's daughter, Sigma, and a|f' boarder in the house jumped from i, windows, thus escaping the rush the Insane man. ISSSB ;-v Leaves Standard Oil Service. Peoria.--Wellington A. Jones, city . harbor master and city salesman of|» the Standard Oil company, has re-~ signed his ̂ position with the Standard! because the local manager demanded that he drop the prosecution against^ the Swain Packet company for non-rig payment of wharfage, "because the£ prosecution was Injuring the business * of the Standard with the packet cont-vj pany." ^ Old Settlers Gather In Whiteside- || Sterling.--The annual picnic of the , old settlers of Whiteside county wasi?4 attended by 6,000. The special attrac- ̂ tion was an address by H. H. Waite* ^ of Prophetstown, and a ball game.V Ten thousand people of Ogle, Lee an#|| Whiteside counties attended the first annual meeting of the Modern Wood- / , men of America of the three counties^ "fife M ' i ' i •'Ci .m Severely.Injured by Horse. Glrard.--Herbert H. Vaniman, X \ prominent farmer living one and one-^ t;." half miles north of this city, was se~ y verely Injured by a horse. He weafe^ Into the stall and the horse crowdedf^ him against the partition, tearing ther ligaments pt his right arm and severe- t ly injuring him about the head and?""! s h o u l d e r s . . . . ' - P i .-I Blow of Fist Fatal, - J, Lacon.--In a saloon brawl at VatTSir., ^ ten miles east of here, Nick Smith, saloonkeeper, knocked John Parsons, 1 g of Magnolia off the sidewalk. In fall-feg^ Ing Parsons broke his neck and diedf J , Immediately. Parsons was about 35^ years old, and is survived by a frif»| and family. The coroner's jury «qt onerated Smith. --Vr •; % Another Story Nailed. The "Story of how sheep are killed by the kea, or wild parrot of New Zealand has become a classic. Ac­ cording to this tale, the bird alights on the poo# animal's back and tears out the kidneys with its sharp beak, this being the only part that tbf par­ rot relishes. The sheep is then left to die. "We have always felt" says Knowledge (London), "that if there were any truth at all in the stories of the depredations caused by the kea parrot on New Zealand sheep farms, they be greatly exaggerated;* In- The Field 'R. L.' gives a brief actount of the results of a conference of rep- 4esentative men held recently in Wel-ington. It would seem that they have been enabled to sl>ow that these stories are without ioundation in fact. All the members of this conference were men well acquainted with this bird In its native haunts, but not on-# of them, either a3 the result of hii own experience or from the testimony j of others, was able to adduce a Single j item of evidence In support of the a* j leged sheep-worrying charge." Woman's Fondness for Finery. Anthropologists will tell us that women dress to catch beaux and Dar­ win gives long pages to prove that the pretty colors,- stripes, spots and forms of animals originated in the superior luck of individuals endowed by chance with attractive variations. Selection of mates went by beauty, and pretty feathers made the pretty bird. But as respects humankind that play of evolution is obsolete. Among wild animals and primitive races it may still hold good, but everybody that knows anything knows that nowadays in cultured communities women dress for other women, not for men. Men are incapable of comprehending and appreciating the niceties and refine­ ments of feminine dress. For whose admiration, for example, is the bride's trousseau created? It is evidently and confessedly beyond the bridegroom's powers and he ignores it--stupid thing that'he is. Dress, in short, is a fine art which women pursue in and for itself and the educated taste they bring to bear upon it lifts It above all other decorative arts.--Baltimore Sun. To Clean Combs. Brashes and combs can be perfectly 'cleansed with clear water and ammo­ nia. Do not let the handles of the brushes get wet. After thoroughly wetting the bristles, place the brushes, back downward, in the sunshine, and let thiem remain there until dry. Good Mouth Wash. Equal quantities of ledpn juice, lia- terine and glycerine ntwe an excel­ lent mouth wash. Socialists In Jail and Out. Peoria.--Rudolph Pfeiffer, candidate for congress on the Socialist ticket,, and his colleague, Dr. S. A. Knopfna- gel, were put into jail at Brimfield for* creating a disturbance. They subse­ quently were released. ... ..... Death of Wealthy Farmer. Litchfield. -- John SlowmaS, H j! j wealthy farmer living in Honey Point, ] j township, died. He was 75 years oW „y ^ and had resided for 50 years oo. farm where he died. Bank Assessments Increased. '"*• Chicago.--The banks of Cook coun-j ty will be compelled to pay taxes at $12,000,000 more property this year than they did in 1905, because of tho action taken by the board of review. Died at Carlinville. , Carllnville.--Mrs. Anna L. Wooflrnff^|| died at the residence of her daughter. ||| Mrs. M. Gardner, in this city, agedii fy. 88 years. Product of the Tlmev The well bred man o' pleasure is gradually dying out and giving place to the tearing, rushing, money grab­ bing, excitement hunting, slangy, mannerl^s,, selfish devotee of horse­ flesh and chorus girls we meet so often in the drawing-rooms of duch­ esses and countesses to-day.--M. A. P. Honesty Before Everything. "Be honest, work hard, and save." said John D. Rockefeller to his Cleve­ land Sunday-school class. "Honesty ia the basis of all character, aad there can be no real success without !t Mrs. John Flnefrock Dead. Pana.--Mrs. John Flnefrock, was formerly Miss Minnie Hatton, is dead at the home of her parents, Mr. ,/ and Mrs. Robert Hatton, Pana. .«*»•< Death from Old Age. Bloomington.--The death of Michael Flynn occurred at his home, 1310 North Livingston street. The cause of bis death was old age and its at­ tendant debilities. Aledo Woman Hangs Herself. Aledo.--Mrs. Clay Glaney W1M herself by hanging In an outhouse at their home. Her husband found the body. m • , . . The Broncho Faces Fast MiMk^ Decatur.--In a trial against the track record and her own time The Broncho broke both when she paced m mile in 2:02. The previous track rec­ ord was made by The Broncho last year, when she stepped a mile 1st 1:03^4. This was also her Wo ord. Mrs. Wright Dies at Havana* Havana.--Mrs. Taylor Wright !•» dead at her home near this city. SJwi was 31 years old and leaves a ktt-i band and two children. ^ Chicago Businesa Man a Stridfe. Chicago.--Joseph Salat. 29 years old, brother of Samuel Salat, member* of the firm of Salat, Foiak 4 Kopev- ky, real estate brokers, committed su­ icide by shooting himself it the head at 310 West Randolph street. He had told an employe that he was sick aaA was going to "end it all." «rfV«4* » /. . * .... ,Aiw .