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I UBy two-thirds of the divorce cases Stow are brought about by disagreea- ble mothers-in-law, Crtnth of Moth- i asserts a Uhicago cr-ln-Law Evil. . T , exchange. In 17 or the middle western states, since last January, 4.17 diwjrce suits have been filed wherein the husband accuses his mother-in-law rf having induced his wife to leave him. In these same states 47 suicides hare been caused by the wife's mother taking too much inter est in her daughter's household af fairs. Of this number of Miicides the daughter hn.s been the suicide ia 32 eaaes. So it hardly pays for the anoth er o interfere with her daughter's husband and their household, for in majority of cases she causes her own child's dea4h. The ourse of the mother-in-law is growing instead of getting better. The young man who marries nowadays finds himself, in six cases out of seven, hampered hy hia wife's mother; if not that the girl finds herself unable to put up with her mother-in-law. The renson for this mate of affuirs is ensily explained. Airx-seveaths of the marring wUicli have taken place in Ohio, Indiana, 11 liiKnts, Kansas and Missouri within the last six weeks were between young men and women who, not being able to start in keeping house, had to go and live with OOS r the other of their families. This is how a Memphis yonng man, in a fit of absent-mindedness, lost his Ue Fora-ot 14 feW dtt-vs ago, as reported by the Scimitar, of Wink. that city "He took the young lady to a soda fountain. She ordered the regulation ice cream soda, and then tho clerk asked hi in w hat he would have. 'Gimme a glass of beer,' care lessly said the young man, and then he oalmly went on talking1 with the young lady. 'I beg your pardon; what was it you wanted?' asked the clerk. Beer,' responded hc young man, still unconscious of his mistake. Then rhs young lady asked him what he want ed, and she asked in a manner which brought him around in a hurry. Their stay in the place lasted only abenttwo xnisutes longer. Since then the young Isdy has refused to see him. She had "been regarding hira as o model of pro priety, and has not yet recovered from her shock at finding him some thing clso. II Is now denouncing soda fountains as disturbers of the peace." TAPE WORMS "A tape worm eighteen feet loos; at least came on the scene after my taking two QASCARETS. This I am sure has caused my bad health tor the past three rears. 1 am still taking Cascarets. the only cathartic worthy of notice by sensible people " Utu W HOWUS, Halrd, M1BS. Pleant. Palatable Potent, Taste Good Do Good. Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 2jc. Ouc ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... St.rilac I . . ,f IMipur, tlilttsn. Vgptrr.l, Tsrs. 313 SJfl Tl RAP Hold and eiisrantpfio' hy all dmg- U" ItMMI iSi to CKBI Tobacco liablt. FAm CANOY M JM CATHARTIC TRtZ MACK nEOIJTTBeO : A NEZ PERCE LOCHIN VAR. I How an Unwilling Bride Was HY HATTKKMAM I IMWAV. S TBK Yakimas, the Nez l'erces and the UmatiUaa were holding a midsummer love feast. It was a country fair, a camp meeting, an ath letic meet, n Knights Templar con clave and Monte Carlo fused in one and poured into a picnic mold. For assembly room and banqueting hall they had n sandy plain on the first standard parallel of latitude, not far from the confluence of the Snake ajid Columbia. It was walled by the horizon, roofed by a sapphire vault and festooned at night with innumer able scintillnnt sparks, to account for whose origin and destiny the Indian does not lie awake at nights, though he ha his explanations of such mat ters, too. The sportively-inclined braves of tho three, tribes -and what Indian is not sportive? had come to the meet, brhiging their ponies and blankets, their line baskets, their trinkets and pelf, and, incidentally, their squaws and papooses. Your Indian is a reso lute plajret and a good loser; games f hazard are his Inborn racial pas sion, to Which he devotes himself with all the ardor he erstwhile din played m war and the chase. He has a favorite game which the pale faces call Indian poker, and such of them a have mastered its intricacies say it is quite as efficient as the white variety. And now, after three days of play, the loot was stacked up in heaps on the Nez Peroa side. The (Jmatillas atrd the Yakimas had not a pony, n blanket, n valuable of any kind left them scarcely B battered tin to boil water in. The fun was over, there was nothing left to do but to break up the conclave and return whence they came. Hut among the Yakimas was one young man, Konewock by name, who was not as good a loser as the others; when he looked over at his two fleet ponies, with headstalls and bridle reins of braider horse hair, his finely woven baskets, worth much money in the marts of the enri hunters, his thick blankets, his beaded belts and moccasins, his trusty knife, his heart rebelled within him. He strode up to Hlue Heron, the Nez Perce, who had been his prin cipal opponent, and said to hlmt "One game between us two only. 1 will stake my squaw against all you have won from me." Bins Heron laughed. He was a tall, straipht-liiaVed, devil-may-cana fel low, fresh from a morning plunge in the creak, and groomed to the very perfection of an Indisn toilet. "The Nez Perces have plenty of girls," he replied. "I bed rather have the ponies," "Coward ! " sneered Konewock. "You refuse a challenge!'' "Neverl" said Blue Heron. "But what kind of a squaw is it that you think to put up against two ponies and two blankets and baskets and bead work? I never saw one worth so much." "There she is. standing among those women. The one with her hair unbound. She is angry because I made her give me the strings of beads and silver pieces she hnd braided in with it." "Huh!" said Blue Heron, surveying the 'young woman, critically. "She has a temper." "Sometimes," admitted Konewock. "But she is strosg and a good cook; and very pretty." "Well, I agree," said Bhae Heron. The Nez Terce brought one of his lately won blankets end spread it in a convenient spot, Konewock pro duced a deck of enrds, and the two sat down. News of the wager rapidly spread thrrsnghout the camp, and the players were quickly surrounded by a triple ring of deeply interested spec tators. Either from a msllelmis desire to torment his opponent, or from a wish to prolong the excitement of the gnme, Blue Heron chose an original method f wagering. "The pinto pony against her head." said he, as he sat down opposite Konewock. He won the head. I "The buckskin pony against her heart," said Blue Heron, winking gravely nt a bystander opposite Mm. I He lost the heart and the buckskin pony. Konewock laughed jubilantly, I and n wave of excitement pan through the crowd, which then nettled into a breathless silnnce to wateh the result of the next wager. "This blanket agulsMt her hands," said Blue Heron. He won the hands. "The other blanket apninst her feet," sail Blue Heron. He won the feet. By this time a dense throng sur rounded the contestants. A spokes man in the foremost rank communi cated the result of each play in a gut teral undertone to the man behind him, who passed it back tint il it reached the outermost ring of women and girls, where much suppressed conversation and giggling were going on. "The buckskin pony against her head," sasi Konewock. At this point there was some commotion among the spectators. A sturdily built old Indian was forcing his way toward the center, and recognizing Teennt, the father of the wagered girl, the erowri parted and allowed him to pass. Konewock dealt, and the hands were played out In absolute silence. Konewock lost nd the buckskin pony passed back to Blue Heron. There remained but the heart of Knne ' wock's squaw in his possession; they had been playing an hour. "I wager nil against the heart," sai Blue Heron, dealing the enrds. Blue Heron won; he laughed loud ly as he rose front the blanket and stretched himself. His laugh was echoed by his friends in the crowd, which broke up into little knots with much noisy jest and babbling. Old Teenat strode through the dissolving groups without answering any of the WOUsMm witticisms flung at him. Blue Heron linked his arm through that of Konewock, and said: "Come on! Let us get the woman; I want to be off." They found her standing by her father's wickiup; her mother, sit ting on the ground before a smolder ing ire of sage brush, appeared to be absorbed in watching the contents of a tin can which was simmering on the coals. Teenat was occupied in cinch ing tip a blind old pack horse, and paid no attention to the young men. "Looesn, this is Bine Heron," said Konewock, at once, sulky and shame faced. "You belong to him now." The girl regarded them with blaz ing eyes. "I belong neither to you nor to him," she said, with concen trated fury in her tones. "I will stay here." "You will not!" asserted Kone wock, taking hold of her, none too gently. The girl Screamed, and old Teenat turned, but did not stir from his place. He was a man of substance and character, much respected among his people, the Yakimas. "Let be!" he said, briefly; "my daughter is not a slave to lie gambled for over a blanket. She goes with me." Konewock dropped the girl's arm and turned to Blue Heron, question Ingly, The latter only laughed, ns usual, observing (freely translated into English vernacular): "Well, it seems you can't deliver the goods! I'm not. looking for a fight. I am satisfied With the plunder I have. I only nccepted the wager to please JTOU. Ta-ta!" Turning lightly on his heel he went nway. Konewock shortly followed, sulky and sore, and half an hour Inter the two might have been observed, if every one had not been too busy with his own nfTuirs to give them any further thought, plotting to gether under the high banks of the coulee. As a matter of fact. Blue Heron was not so indifferent to the girl's rejection as it had pleased him to appear. He rather piqued himself upon his personal appenranpe, and was not wont to sue in vain. He con sidered that he had fairly won the young squaw, and lent himself read Hy to Konewock's suggestions, with the result that when Teenat's family, already several miles on their home ward trail, camped for the night, two horsemen hobbled their ponies be hind a hillock not far away. The first time Looesn ventured abroad among the uncertain shadows search ing for fagots to feed the dying fire, two pairs of sinewy arms seized and gagged her and bore her away with out sound of struggle or cry to alarm her relatives, and five minutes later a little Indian pony waa making record time, despite its double load, in the direction of the Blue mountains, amid whose recesses Blue Heron intended to lose himself until the pursuit was given over. For he did not doubt that the young men of the Yakimas would make Teenat's cause their own. When Blue Heron considered that it was safe to do so, he removed the gag from between Looesa's teeth and set her down on the ground beside his pony's head; be still retained his hold of the riata with which his cap tive's wrists were bound, and thus forced her to walk beside him until his winded steed bud recovered itself, when he lifted her in front of him and again loped away at full speed, the unshod hoofs of his pony beating softly on the sandy plain. It was Blue Heron's intention to reach the Walla Walla, ford it by break of day, and, following it up hito the foothills, cross over the divide at his leisure and come down into the canyon of the Grande Ronde. This he could de scend to its junction with the Snake, and thence get him home to Fort Lapwni with his prise without mueh danger of interruption. For a week the days had been like the opaline chamber of a hollow shell, the nights like a crystal goblet inlaid with gems, saturating the earth with balm from its Inverted bowl. But this night was black and breathless, the moon, in Its third quarter, was not yet risen, and though the sky seemed cloudless, few stars were vis ible. The heat which rose from the desert, instead of losing itself as usual among wide, cool spaces of fluent air, settled back on the earth, as if shut in by a great lid; not even a cricket chirped; the death-like, brooding si lence was pregnant with menuee. The fleeing trio, horse and woman and man, were oppressed for breath and damp with sweat as they hurried forward through the night, pausing now and again for a moment's respite, and anon racing through the black ness, invisible to pursuit had there been any. Suddenly in the northeast a great sheet of lightning blazed up to the zenith, and for half the round of the horizon showed them the summits of the Blue mountains sharply defined against its glare. Almost simultane ously an awful peal of thunder seemed to shntter the vault of Heaven and send it rattling down in fragments upon the appalled earth. The pony stopped short and trembled; neither man nor beast in these longitudes is accustomed to such display of ele mental forces. Such a storm as they were about to witness is rare, indeed, on the western slope of tho conti nent. But, after the shock of sur prise occasioned by the first on slaught, had passed, Blue Heron pressed on steadily toward it. Im mediately around them the black Gtillness continued, but before them .he ebon curtain of the night was jroidered with zigzag traceries of burnished steel, and ever and anon the serrated mountain ridge leaped . it 1 f In ...-. .1 . i 1 1 n rv.. (.,.. 1.1 .... mm mm - J mi. nfwiiai n inn,- WBUta background of sheeted flame, while, with scarce an interregnum, the thunder bird flapped his wings with terrible reverberations Unit al most stunned the fugitives. They proceeded thus for SRore than half an hour before they met the ad vancing storm. Without other warn ing than the fresh smell of wet earth one. a miuuen sounu in tneir ears 01 i rushing waters, they entered the del uge, and were drenched to the skin i in a moment, but kept doggtnlly on ; their course, until, with the first flush of dawn, they stood upon the bank of the Walla Walla. The storm had now passed entirely, but the lit tie river that Blue Heron had ex pected to ford was running bank full, J a yellow flood, bearing driftwood on its bosom. Blue Heron set his pony and his j captive at liberty, nnd walked to and 1 fro to straighten his legs, while he i Considered. A fire and breakfast seemed equally desirable, but it was more desirable still to be on the other side of that stream, where the trail 'lay which he wished to follow. There had evidently been a cloudburst in the mountains ami it would be many hours before the water would run pnst. But once on the other side, he fancied he would be safe from pur suit for some time; nnd it would be n Strange thing, indeed, if he, Hlue Heron, with a little leisure for proper OOUrtshlp, could not conquer the hu mors of ever so coy a maiden or madam. Though, sooth to say, this one had shown no symptoms of do cility as yet. Blue Heron was quite aware that there was something be yond mere risk rn attempting to cross the flood, but that was rather an in centive than otherwise. He decided to chance the issue. So, after giving his pony a half hour to rest and refresh itself, he cinched it up again, anil removing the clothing from his fine glistening body he bound .it on Looesa's shoulders. The latter, understanding now what it was he contemplated, protested vig orously; nt length her dignity suc sumbed entirely, and she begged with tears. But Blue Heron was laugh ingly inexorable. He forced her to mount the pony, and, bidding her hold on well, drove the unwilling ani mal Into tho water. Grnsplng the pony's mane, he swam beside it on the lower side, and kept its head against the current as much as possible. The pony struggled for its life, and Blue Heron swam like the athlete he was. All was going well, when suddenly around a bend above them a cotton wood tree csme down on the flood, held upright in the water by the weight of the earth clinging to its roots, its branches swaying menac ingly as ft swept along. Loosen ut tered a cry en despair, and Blue Heron, raising himself out of the wnter enough to look over the pony's neck, saw what was coining upon them, and with a shout to the animal sank back and put forth all his re serve strength. It was now verily a race with death. Where the swimmers gained a foot against the current Ure tree gained yards with it. Loosen busied herself in an endeavor to unfasten the pack from her shoulders, while her eyes remained fixed in horror on the approaching doom. The pony, urged fcy her frantic shouts, labored until his side seemed ready burst. Blue Heron's eye were starting from his head with his rxevttons, and his breath came in painful gasps. The space narrowed swiftly; it was not a question of moments, hit rf seconds. Nearer, nearer swept the tree, its branches towered ubove them. "Quick!" shouted Looesn, in the voice of the lost. "It is here!" One last, supreme effort, and the mass of foliage swept past the jtony's flanks, just grazing them. Saved by a hand's breadth! But where wns Looesa? Hnd she not ea?aped? As rf with deliberate malice, the tree hnd courtesied to the flood, nnd, bringing down a branch that the instant be fore was high above her head, hnd swept her from Wie pony's back. Looesa wn n good swimmer, but, half stunned nnd weighed down with the pack from which she had not succeeded in releasing herself, she was unable to do more than keep her head above the water. It took nn in stant for Blue Heron to realise what had happened, another (as H would you or me) for him to rise to the level of the hero; then he let go of his pony and safety, nnd gave him self to the flood. He reached Looesa just as she was giving herself up to her fate, ami seized her long, float ing hair. It wns far down the stream where they landed, nnd nt the last It wns the' woman who dragged the young Nez Perce out upon the snnd. where he lay prone and naked, panting his soul out in sheer exhaustion. Then it wns that the girl he had gambled for wooed Blue Heron back to life by her ministrations. For the brave shall ever win the fnhr, nnd sly little Cupid looks just ns winsome warming himself by a fire of sage brush in the early chill of a midsum mer morn in the. desert, when nil the earth is rosy with the level rays of the newly risen sun, as peeping forth from the honeysuckle of Amaryllis' bower in an older and a paler land. San Francisco Argonaut. ' " T, "Is she an up-to-date "irlV" he re- 1, I.. 11 1 , , , , pented. "Is she? Well, rather. Why, flO. you know what she did?" ,,n'-'-' ' "Well, sir, when the young man to whom she was engaged began lo show indicate 11 . of a desire to reeon- The hedgehog is of great value to sider, she went into court nnd applied farmers, and should be protected. He Ipr nn injunction to restrain him ; Is always searching for worms and in trom Breaking the engagement." Chi- 1 sects that art injurious to plants, aago Post. SILO CONSTRUCTION. Obaervntlnna and Eaprrlence of an Ohio Farmer Vh Sn lie Una Ax to t.rlml. Before binding my silo I examined silos of different construction, some of stone, some of cement anil others of wood; some round and some square. Then I built my silo of wood, square, with corners well rounded. 1 aimed to make my silo strong and cheap. There are many method of construction, some complicated and costly. But I still think that the simplest, strongest, cheapest air tight pit thut will preserve the silage is the best. 1 believe that for the best prac tical results the diameters should FRAME FOR SILO. range from 12 to 16 fet, according to I the amouwt. of stock fed from the ! silo. I do not think it advisable or j practical to build a silo smaller 'han I U feet square or 12 teet in diameter, j And rather than go above Vd or 18 feet in diameter 1 advise increasing I the capacity by building more silos. The erase just sow is for the round . stave silos, but I think the average farmer who expects to build a silo would better build a square frame with rounded cosscrs, for the follow ing reasons-. A square wooA sifb with ribs or girts around It horizontally, lined up end down inside and weetherboarded outside, whether built in a barn or outside, whether tied to another butfding or standing akatc, will al ways be firm and rigid, and will not suffer from the dVying-out process that ocoars during ths hot weather, when the ilo Is empty. And this, I think, is a strong point in favor of the frame silo. I have learned of round nflos that went to wreck, like n old barrel, In tho dry weather. In the Wisconsin bulletin Mo. S3 the writer soys he visvted a number of stave alios that were badly damaged and wsecked in this drying-out proc ess and by the wind. In ray judg ment this wrecking process would be worse in a silo where the staves had been spliced, for they must be made weaker in splicing tho staves. CORNs.it OT THE 81 IX). As I am not a draughtsman, I in eloe an illustration from the Wlsr consul bulletin that exactly indicates the framework of my silo, except that my sflo is 30 feet higei and that the girts are closer than here indi cated. Ths corner pieces or segments are not properly indicated in the cut, so I have drawn another sketch that more clearly radicates them. In Fig. 2 you will see that I have the corner well rounded. From the inside of the corner (A) to the faoe of the segment (B) is 12 inches, and we have no trouble in going around this corner with or dinary tongued and grooved flooring. Wa lined this framework with yellow pine flooring and gave it a coat of hot coal tar every year; one dollar's worth of tar and one dollar's worth of labor are ample for this work. It is air-tight and preserves the silage perfectly, and I believe if the tarring is uot neglected the lining will last indefinitely. Horns advocate a brick lining, but I do not think this practical, for the creriees would let in the air and the outside woodwork could not well be made air tight. While in wood-lined silo, tongued nnd grooved, the moisture of the silage will at onse swell it into an air-tight condition, and when the tar ring is well done the drying but is re duced to the minimum and the wood protected against decay. The next rit I will build will be of the same construction, but larger. I believe it is practical to build them firm enough and strong enough airainst anv bnlirino'. 1111 tn ir f..t 1 t. . n,"ci' I - ---' ! square. I do not think ctmcnt at all r.,t !,..! In .tin .,,t,i;,. 1 . j fts u foundation), for the least iw 11- 1 inf, or contraction would crack and' j break tho coating nnd let the air in. I ( Ji. C. Morris, in Ohi Farmer, i ' jw Teiiior " By their fruits ye shall know them The way to itfn;e of the value of an, medicine is by its cures. Apph thr test to Ir. 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She had itm awfully large, and her limbs began lo iwell before we began to use your Puvoim y,i' criiition.' Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure bill- UU311CH, Economists and students of indus- iVial conditions who "view with Machinery..,. olarm" lhe s t a n t invention Farm. . . ... ,. uuu iiiniujuicauon of labor-saving machinery in this country will find food for thought in the present efforts that are Ueing made to coax the idlers and hnbo$ from the cities to the western wheat fields. It is the same old Macedonian cry for help from the farmers of Kan sas and the Dakotas, says the Chicago Record-Herald. The harvest is ripe and the reapers are few. Vast fields of golden grain are already over ripened and the farmers are threat ened with heavy kisses thrnnjrTi ina bility to secure the necessary heSo t harvest tho crop. Employoient agencies sad railroad companies are making the most tempting offer j to the unemployed. In some instances at high as Shree dollars a day and free transportation are offered. But the idlers prefer the overcrowded city with a meager and uncertain liveli hood to good wages and plenty to eat on the harvest fields of the Bakotai. The various proposals to ship the ho boes by the car load to the wheat fields of the west may sound reason fble and attractive to the economist, but the man who is familiar with the tastes and habits of the hobo knows that he will not work after he has been shipped to the wheat fields. Out in rowa farmers in desperation held up a train recently to capture some la borers. It was not a difficult job to capture them, but to compel thein to toil in the harvest field they found was a different matter. Very few men are needed on the farm to-day fotirnared to what were needed 20 er 25 years ago. The self-binding reaper now does the work of kix to ten men in each field. But men are still needed to shock and load the wheat and haul it to the burns or stacks. If men persist in their unwillingness to work on the farm and the scarcity of farm labor becomes more pronounced each year, it is plain that mechanical genius will be oalled upon to make the farmer Still more independent of human help. Ho must have machinery that will not otfiy harvest the crops but will gather them, store them and thresh them without the aid' of human hands. Ma chines of this kind are already in use on the thousand-acre farms of the great wes. It may be that the neces sity for farming almost entirely br machinery will bring about an era of great combinations among farmers by which all may have the use of the moat expensive labor-saving devices. The post office department is having trouble over a little post office in Bar tholomew county, Ind., which was es tablished some years ago under the name of Springer. A month later it was changed to Cushman, and three months afterward back to Springer. 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