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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."
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bad health tor the past three rears. 1 am still
taking Cascarets. the only cathartic worthy of
notice by sensible people "
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TRtZ MACK nEOIJTTBeO
: A NEZ PERCE LOCHIN VAR.
I How an Unwilling Bride Was
HY HATTKKMAM I IMWAV.
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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
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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
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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.
In 1893 it was called Grammer, but in
189T the old name of Springer was
given it. It next appeared as Gram
mer, but Springer followed. A post
master was appointed who refnscdto
qualify as postmaster of Springer, but
insisted on being postmaster of Gram
mer. The department chose his suc
cessor, Miss Mollie Bergman, and
changed the nnme back to Sprit)!,''''
Miss Bergman has followed the tactics
of her predecessor and insists on
qualifying as the postmaster of Oram
mer or not nt all. The difficulty msj
be solved by closing the oflice entirely-
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