Herbert's Magazine from Hiawatha, Kansas • 7

M'K to 1tftWm A Mil HERBERT'S MAGAZINE a sun nap in a scaffold she had built for the purpose on the third floor. But. alas, for all plans! She fell to. the ground while asleep and will die. A Miss Linchenstein, of New York, wanted the courts to change her name her brothers had had' theirs changed, and the difference in family names caused But the judge refused.

"If you want your name chang broke the engagement, and her ex-lover married his choice. But the story was too good to keep, and it reached Mamie's ears. Whereupon, though she war. the one to break the engagement, she brought suit for $5,000 breach of prom- ed," he said, "get married.1 lse. if she discarded black for colors, had a happy thought.

She would return to nature, and wear nothing. She appeared on the streets in the nude, and when officers tried to arrest her, she shot and killed herself. Twin sisters, Marie and Annie Grab-ner, deaf and dumb, each loved him. Each was unwilling to let the other have him so they wrote a farewell notCj took poison, and died in each other's arnls. A man committed suicide in a San Francisco hotel, and the proprietor rendered the following bill against the estate: "Damage to carpet by blood and brains, $15; damage to wall by bulled and brains, $5 damage to wall by ear and blood, $5." The total was $25, which the administrator paid.

Fifty farmers and their wives in the foothills of the Cascade mountains near Seattle, are spending their rainy day money on an ark. They are influenced by the Rev. James McElwell, who says teh world will come to an end by flood next Sunday. In case the vision does not come true, the ark will be called a meeting house. A man who strays on a forbidden path taxes his brain until it breaks, for an excuse to give his wife when he gets home.

Mrs. Snodgrass, of Meadville, is suing the wife of her former husband for $5,000 for stealing her husband 's affections. The other woman used to be a nurse, and when Mrs. Snodgrass would upbraid her husband for being out so late he would reply: "I needed a hot pack, and no one can give hot packs like Polly." The Grace Memorial Presbyterian church of Pittsburg, has a Renovating committee, whose duty it is to shake the carpets, polish up the altar, etc. The Renovating committee got up a picnic to raise money for a new carpet, and advertised dancing.

The preacher yesterday got out an injunction restraining the members of his flock from giving a dance. His act has resulted in a split in the church that is making the worldly hold their sides. M. B. Stein and wife, both under 25, had been married a year, and decided to spend the first anniversary visiting his wife's aunt, Mrs.

Hester Porter, age 50, of London, Ohio. They arrived, and Stein met his aunt-at-law for the first time. He walked with her into an adjoining room, shot and killed her and then killed himself. Perhaps he didn't like the looks of his new kin, but this can hardly be an. excuse for murder.

Mrs. Nancy Balleon, of Oak Park, Chicago, was a great health faddist. Every morning she took a walk in her bare feet, exercised on parallel bars, and took a cold plunge. Then she took Mrs. Oren Elliott, of Graham, has sued for divorce, charging that her husband cursed her.

Her husband is deaf and dumb, and had to do cursing with his fingers, but it never occurred to Mrs. Elliott to look the other way. Here is a particular tale that the men shouldn't read. There is something new under the sun. It is the sheath-knieker, a pair of pants which women will wear under their new tight-fitting gowns this winter.

No petticoats; no fluffy ruffles. Everything must be skin tight. All other wedding processions will be put in a shade so deep it will require a lantern to find the bride, when the wedding of the Duke of the Abuzzi, and Miss Katherine Elkins occurs. A fleet of warships will escort the bride and groom upon their return to Italy. This will be going Some.

Ivey Kast, age 16, of Detroit, wanted to marry, and her father, thinking he had a right, objected. She has brought suit against him for $16,000, including Dr. Osborn, his most intimate friend, in the suit. She charges that they conspired to prevent her marriage, and made her sad $16,000 worth. Anna G.

Ross Depeyster, of Johnstown, N. 70 years old, and with two husbands dead, married Ernest Bolton, a young man 26 years of age. The papers in telling of the marriage say the an cient bride is a prominent philanthropist, why did she not adopt the young man instead of marrying him? Aaron Kneeland, of Georgetown, on his 75th wedding anniversary, was asked to give some advice on matrimony. "Too much honey is fatal to matrimony. Don't have too much of it," he said.

He added that he and his wife had had many quarrels in the past 76 years and enjoyed living together because of them. Captain Yarde-Buller, of London, jilted a Mrs. Atherton, to whom he was engaged, and married Miss Denise Orme, an actress. Mrs. Atherton sued the groom for breach of promise and recovered.

The captain's wife has re-turned to the stage to make enough money to pay the damages her husband owes for bruising Mrs. Atherton 's affections. If you insist upon going back to nature, gently slide there by degrees. Mrs. Lulu Kreitzer, of Dayton, age 40, a widow, disgusted with widow's weeds and afraid of her neighbors' tongues William Wilhelmy, a banker of An-sonia, fell in the mud while visiting, and had to go to bed while his linen pants were done up.

The washerwoman was green, and when she found a roll of bills in the pockets, she washed, starched, blued and ironed them, too, and the neighborhood was startled at seeing $500 in bills hanging on the line beside the pants. You often hear of the curiosity of women, of how women gossip, but here is a story a. man tells on himself. Guy Dempsey, of Arverne, L. lived in a boarding house.

One night he went down stairs from his room to get a drink of water. He noticed a light shining from under the door in a room occupied by the Rev. Newton Owen, and wondered why on earth the Rev. Owen had a light; he peeked through the key hole, and saw a married woman there. For four nights after that he peeked through the keyhole of the Rev.

Owen's room and saw the married woman, and told it around until it finally reached the ears of the husband who is now suing for divorce, and Dempsey is telling the story in court. When it comes to courage, the man who faces the cannon's mouth, a raging lion, or an army of crazy men, is in need of a very small amount in comparison with the wholesale quantities needed by the preacher, who has to tell his congregation that he is about to be married. The Rev. William Hewlett Lawrence, of Trinity Methodist church, Richmond Hills, L. put off getting married until he was 59 years old, and then he met and loved Mrs.

Frances May Guernsey Edwards, of Northport, L. who divorced her husband last April. Lawrence went to Ocean Grove for his vacation, and from that safe distance informed his congregation of his approaching marriage. The Ladies' Aid society immediately went to work, and investigated to see if the lover had known his divorced lady love BEFORE her divorce. They found he had not.

Then they called a mass meeting of the church members, and this prayer was offered up: "So direct and guide our pastor that he may be able to carry on the work of God with vigor and strength." The Ladies' Aid society then passed a resolution to attend the wedding of the pastor and the wTidow in a body. The preacher's courage carried him through the conflict, but the bride-elect gave way: She collapsed, is sick in bed, and the wedding is postponed..