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FUNNY FLASHES. "!?e reasons in aoirole." "Ah! that accounts for his arguments never com ing to an end. "-India uaoplis Journal. "Xs yonr baby intelligent?" "Intel ligent? Why, say, if she wasn't she'd never be able to understand the lan guage my wife talks to he.-. "-Boston Courier. Wableigu-Bicycling will never be popular in South Africa. Crosscut Why not? Wableigh-Beeause they have so much trouble with their bad Rhodes.-New York Press. MTS. Gray-Isn't that lovely? How much did you pay for it? Mrs. Greene -Two and a half a yard. Mrs. Gray What an odd price. You are sure it wasn't $2.48 or $2.51?-Boston Tran script. Weary Walker-Say, I'm a-goin' ter strangle meself to death! Dusty Rhodes (in amazement)-What fer? Weary Walker-Jnst listen what i? says in dis paper: "Every time we breathe 100 muscles of our body are set to work. " Puck. _ Horrid Torture. 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Every roughness of the skin f re m a simple chap to Tetter and Ringworm eve:a of long standing 3s completely, quickly and surely cured oy Tetterine. Is comfort worth 50 cent* j io your lliat's the price of Tetterine ct drug stores, or by mail for price in stamps from J. T. | Shup'alne, Savannah, Ga. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CBBNET & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, tho undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney for the last 15 years, and believe him per fectly honorable In aU business transactions and financially able to carr}* out any obligation made by their finn. WIST Jfc TBCAX, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, Ohio. WALBING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Drug gists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure?ls taken Internally, act ing directly upon tho blood and mucous sur-, tacos of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold ty all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are Ute best. 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KLINE, Ltd., 831 Arch St., Phlla., Pa. { I cannot speak too highly of Piso'8 Cure for J| Consumption.-Mrs. FRANK MOBBS, 215 W. ?Sd ; St.. New York, Oct.?, ISM. ? JUST try a iOc. box of Cascarela, the finest liver and bowel r gulotor ever made. True Blood Purifier Such a medicine you need at ono? to remove tue impurities which -have accumulated in your blood during winter. Such a medicine tn ' Hood's Sarsaparilla. Therefore take Hoed'* Sarsaparilla uow. It will do you wonderful food. It will purify yen? blood, give you au appetite, and cure all humors. Hood's Sarsaparilla { Is sold by all druggists. Price $1, six for ft?. pr )M B?llt? nre prompt, efficient nm S rlllS easy ic effect. Scents. Laugh at the Sun Drink Rootbeer/lOOl-Dnim HIRES) lootbeer, ???f ^ Keep1 Well-Drinfr HIRES iootbeeyyourthifist MIRES ?ootbeer.A For Men Only- ) Diabetes, Bright's Disease and all chronic af fection? of the geni to-urinary system are cured by HAGGARD'S SPECIFIC TABLETS. I They not only cure but Invigorate and re- j .tore. 1 box $1.00,3 boxes $?.50, by mall. Ad- ; dress HAGGARD SPECIFIC COMPANY, 310 Norcross Rld'g., Atlanta, Ga. LAMAR * RANKIN DRUG CO., Wholesale Agents. Augns'a, f>a. Actual business. Notext V boo?>. it?ort tim?. Cheap board- Send for catalogua. M DC DU {MC Opium and Whisky Habit III U li i ll ? H L,cured at home. Never fails. Monarch Home Cure Co., Nsw ALBANY, IND. MENTION THIS PAPER Sr*BS3S Best. Re There are two kinds of aa rest. Tho trouble is they lo dress like the best who's to tel ls known by its fruit" That And the taller the tree the d< test. What's the root,-tho rei one with the deepest root is A; fruit ; that, too, is Ayer's. A; half a century of corea ; a recoi culminating in tho medal of tl ac -ltting Ayer's Sarsaparilla as the rest That was greater hon Sarsaparilla admitted as an ?xiii want to get tho best sarsapari Infallible rnlo : Ask for the b for Ayer's and you 11 get tho b SPRING CLEANING. Valuable Hints for Renovating Old ut? Soiled Articles. An efficient and economical house wife will always welcome suggestions in matters of cleanliness and renova tion. To begin with the best cleanser of hair brushes is spirits of ammonia and warm water. Take a tablespoonful of ammonia to a quart of water, dip the bristles up and down in the water but without wetting the back of the brush, and rinse in clean warm water, then shah'* well and dry in the air, but not in ; We sun. Soap and soda soften the bristles and will turn an iYory-backed brush yellow, so in the case of the latter the following treat ment is recommended: Rub plenty of flour well in, wrap up in. parer and leave all night, give a good shaking and remove the remaining flour by blowing the brush. All brushes and combs should be kept in the dressing case, or in a bag so as to keep them as much as possible from the dust. Ivory that has become yellow from age or usage may be whitened by a good rub bing with fine sand paper or moist pow dered pumice stone. Tortoise shell combs or ornaments that have lost their polish may be renovated by rubbing them with finely powdered rotten stone mixed with ?. little olive oil. The rotten stone shoui? he sifted through a piece of fine muslim before mixing it with the oil. When all marks are removed polish again with a piece of very soft chamois leathor and a little jeweler's rouge. Dust may be removed from velvet much more thoroughly and expeditious ly by rubbing with a piece of crape rather than by using a brush, although it be a soft one. Glass Which has become dull, may be broug;ht back to its original brightness by washing with diluted hydrochloric I acid and afterward rubbing with moist chalk or whiting. Marble may be cleaned with common dry salt, which requires no prepara tion, but may be rubbed directly in the soiled surface, leaving the L.arbl9 beau j tifully clean. Alabaster may he washed ; with soapsuds. If stained, whitewash : thc stains and let it remain for several hours, then clean it off. Take the finest quality of ground pumice stone and mix it with verjuice; let it stand two hours, then take a sponge and rub the alabaster with the mixture. Wash it with a linen cloth and fresh water, and dry it with clean linen rags. To clean brass and copper a mixture of oil and rotten stone applied with a piece of leather and then rubbed bright with clean chamois skin will give a beautiful polish. Furniture to be pol ished should be washed with soap and water, little by little, "and each little quickly dried. Afterward the cream should be applied. Here are two good recipes. Boil thoroughly in a gallon of water one pound of beeswax, four ; ounces of soft soap and two ounces of pearl ash; the second, which should be made at least a day before it is used, is compounded by melting together at i a gentle heat eight parts of white wax, I two of resin, ar.d half a pint of turpen tine. Pour into a jar, shake it well, ( and add six parts of rectified oil of tur ; pentiue. A careful housekeeper is frequently troubled by the tannin stains in fine china teacups. They may usually be removed by rubbing them with a little whiting on flannel. Salt will have the same effect, but it sometimes scratches very fine ware. To clean wall paper use bread about j a day old. If the paper is only dusty, flick and rub it with a soft yarn mop. If it is marked with grease, hold ? piece of blotting paper over the spot with a hot flat irer. for a few moments. Rubbing silver or plated eggspoons with a little liquid ammonia and salt *il>4>efuove the discoloration caused by "fhe sulphur "in the egg. The very best way to clean mirrors and windows Is to rub them with a paste of whiting and water. When this dries polish with chamois skin and remove the powder. A little alcohol in cold water also gives a brilliant polish. Soapsuds should never be used. When grease hss been spilt upon matting, apply powered French chalk and benzine. Cover the grease with the chalk and sprinkle lightly with the benzine. When the latter has evap orated, brush off the chalk, and the spot will also vanish. When grease is spilt on wooden flooring, cold water should immediately be poured over it. This hardens it so that t can easily be scraped away, otherwise it sinks in and repeated scrubbing will not get rid of it. Trinidad's Pitch Lake. A remarkable phenomenon in the island of Trinidad is the "Pitch lake," situated at La Brea, about sixteen miles from the Port of Spain, the cap ital of the island. It is about one and a half miles in circumference and ele vated eighty feet above the level of the sea. The water is covered almost en tirely with a stratum of asphaltum, traversed hy fissures and crevices fill ed with water. The pitch at the sides is perfectly hard and cold, but as one walks toward the middle the heat grad ually increase and the pitch becomes softer and soi ter. At last it is seen boiling up in a liquid state and the air is strongly impregnated with bitu men and sulphur. During the rainy season it is possible to walk over near ly the whole lake, but in the hot weather a great part cannot be ap proached. The pitch is much used up in the island for roads, pavements and roofs, and is exported to the United States and Canada.-Exchange. Couldn't. "Do you think those campaign speakers believe half of what they say?" "Oh, no; they're not so different from other people."-Chicago Journal. he :st. Test rsaparilla: The best-and the ok alike. Auw when the rest 3 them apart? Well, "the tree 's an old test and a safe one. .epcr the root That's another cord of these sarsaparillas ? The jet's. The one with the richest ?-er's Sarsaparilla has a record of .d of many medals and awards ie Chicago World's Fair, which, the best-shut its doors against or than the medal, to be tho only ibit nt the World's Fair. If you lia of your druggist* here's an cst and you'll get Ayer'e, Ask Sit, MR. B? EVELY> HE wedding had passed off exceed ingly well, and everybody was satisfied, especial ly with the fact of its being over. It had taken place at the old fashioned early Lour, so that the bride and bride groom and all tho guests might be gono I Wore evening, and Mra. Wal lace, the bride's grandmother, might have time to settle down again before bedtime. She was a very vigorous and pluoky old lady, but ehe admitted that at four-soore years it is well to keep to regular hours. lt was evening now. Mrs. Wallace had retired to her dressing room, and thc whole house had resumed its wouted aspect. At the drawing-room window stood Christy Wallace, looking oat at the lingering sauset, and meditating on the fact that no one wai so thankful that the wadding was over as herself, an J that for all her thankfulness lifo promised to be a little uninteresting ]ust for the present. Blanche had been thero so long, that though the cousins ha I bj no msaus been all-in-all ta one auother, they had made part of oach other's existence ; au I as for Harold, he had been at Tao House all his lifo long, and had run in and ont of Mrs. Wallace's house as if it had been his own. Thero had been a lime, before end after Blanche arrived upon the scene, when Harold hud come in and out as Christy's acknowledged, if not ac cepted, lover. Then Blanche's livelier ways attracted him, and nobody bad much accouut of Christy's prior claim. Mrs. Wallace even had said little, and though fche had devised a multiplicity of errauds and occupations for her elder grandchild, she had refrained from petting, or any words of com passion-a form of consideration for which Christy very heartily thanked her. Christy was thinking of all this as sho leaned against the window, and could not be sorry that the strain of the lover's presenoe was removed. Blanche had behaved very well all through, been ve-y affectionate and cousinly, but there was the faintest suspicion of kindly condescension in her treatment of the girl whom sho. had supplanted. As for Harold, his bluff good fellowship had been a daily trial. They were gone, but the re moval of her cross mode Christy feel as if lifo would consist of nothing to do for some to come. She looked np the hill to where the chimneys of The House showed be tween the trees, and wondered if Mr. John Tras experiencing anything like ber o*n feelings now that Harold was gone and he had the place to himself. She wondered, too, if now they would allow him the uso of his surname, or if he was to bc Mr. John to the end of the chapter.. Ho had gamed the name during his uncle's life, and after Mr. Turton's death, Harold, Mr. Jobu'shalf-brother, had carried so much the more impos ing presence that the squire still re mained in the background as Mr. John. Ile was quiet and studious, and if he had any love for socioty he re pressed it, partly from his disinclina tion to be outshone by his younger brother, partly from his desire to amend, if possible, the fallen fortunes of his little estate. It was known that his unole had been ambitious that he should marry money, but Mr. John appeared to prefer to save his money by strict economy. If he had ever paid court to anybody, he and that person were the only ones that knew il. Harold also would have been pleased to see him marry money, though he was generous to him, and though Harold had a sufficient fortune of his own. Harold had been much the bigger man at Tho House, and Christy half smiled at the thought of Mr. John be ing forced by circumstances to take his own place. The sun was going down now, the garden lay in a shadow, though the bright rays still shone on Mr. John's chimneys, and on the roses that clus tered over Christy's window. Sud denly there was a step on the turf, and some one came leisurely around the corner of the house. "May I come in, Miss Wallace? It is lonely np at the house." lt was Mr. John himself, and she hastened to admit him. "I was thinking of you," she said, "and wondering if we were to take to calling you by your rightful name now that there is only one of you." "There bas been only one of me all my life long, I think, and that ono has been Mr. John. It would be dif ficult to turn it into anything else, Miss Wallaoe." "Not more difficult, I should think, than yon found it to change me from Christy to Miss Wallace," she said, with a little smile. "That happened, and had to hap pen, when you grew up," he replied, with a faint flush rising to his face. "When are you going to grow np, then, Mr. John? I was rather slow at it if it only happened five years ago, but you are even more dilatory," said Christy, talking for the sake of talking. "What do people do when they grow np? Got married, like Harold and Blanche? Well, I admit that we have let onr juniors get the start of us in that. I hope they will have a happy .life," he ended, dreamily. "They expect it, and they are light hearted people. Blanche is not often out of spirits." Then the two lapsed into silence, and eat gazing out over the landscape. They were both thinking of Blanehe and Harold, and of themselves as well. Tho snr set, and tho summer twi light had it all its own way in garden and wood and meadow, and hero, in Christy's drawing-room, too, where the silent figures sat by the window and meditated. Christy stirred herself with a bit of, a laugh, M a thrmb ia the acacias ! broke into sudden cry. "I am keep ing you here all in the dark," she said, and would have riten to ring for lights. "Not yet," besought Mr. John. "I came up here with a distinct purpose to-night, but I do not know how to set about it. I am a shy, awkward man. Will you forgive me if I make a blunder?" "Surely," answered Christy, in be wilderment. " I want to Bhow you a letter you once wrote me," and he selected a note from bis pocketbook and handed it to her. "Do you remember it?" Christy opened itaud read it by the waning daylight. He watched her as she- leane 1 to the window, thinking what a dainty, delicate hand she had: Dear Mr. Jolin-I nm sorry yo? asked me, Lu.;.m-,' it is impossible. Grau drouin ma could not span mu. Harold will explain it to you. Yours faithfull}', CUBISTINE WALLACE. She hiuded it back to him. "I remember it very well, but it is a long time ago. 1 thought it must have offended you somehow, for it was then that I suddenly grow up." "It is possible for a man to be hurl without being offended. The note hurt me, but something wa9 said yes terday which made mo think there had been a mistake. Will you tell rue what it wa? that I asked, aud you found impossible?" Christy began to feel nervous ; there was something almost portentous in the extrema quiet of his sp333h. His face looked pale through the gather ing gloom. "it was a message .that Harold brought from you. You asked me to ride with you to Bolton's Cove the next day, and I could not go partly became granuy did not think it proper for mo to ride with you alone, and partly because the servants were going to a confirmation, and Jones had to take my horse to drive them. Harold said ho could explain all tbat in words better than I could in writing. I was vexed, because I wanted to go to Bol ton's Cove. You see, I remember it all very well." "Excellently well," he answered, with a curious intonation. "Perhaps you will be surprised to hear that I never did ask you to go to Bolton's Cove, and that I sent you no message on that day." "I don't understand." "No," he answered, his hands mov ing restlessly, in curious oontrast to Christy's, which lay immovable in her l*p. "It seems that I had two friends just then zribre anxious; for my pen nant welfare than cay present happi ness. I was writing a lotter of some importance to myself when my nncle called me away. I loft my desk un locked, not supposing that anyone would be likely to search into my pri vate affairs, but it proved that I was too trustful. Harold examined my letter, and reported upon it to my nicle, and, as the result, my letter was suppressed, and a message devised for Harold to carry in its place. I have a copy of that letter. Let me light a candle; I should like you to read it." Christy sat white and silent in her shimmering wedding dress, ghostlike in the faint light from the window; scarcely less so in the little yellow gloam of tho caudle. Not a pose or a motion of hers escaped Mr. John that night. She was rather frightened now, when he set tho candle down on the shelf beside her and handed her this sec ond letter. The paper trembled in her hand, and sho bene her head nervously over it. As she read she trembled moro and more, for this was a plain and simple proposal of marriage from a man to whom sho had never dared to lift her eyes from that point of view, and tho very simplicity of ic was so like the writer tbat it was like having his very words breathed into her ears. It was written tivo years ago, and he was standing over her now as she read it. To him the time seemed endless, as sbe sat with bent head considering tboso brief words. But it was more than tho words that detained her; it was the shock of the whole thing and tho difficulty of realizing its meaning. She moved at last, and he took back tho letter. "Tho explanation that Harold gave me waa that yon preferred him to me," ho said, with the same forced quietude of his former speeches. "If I sent the letter to you now what answer would you give me?" "Mr. John!" spoke Christy in star tled tones. "If you said 'John,' it would be all the answer I would ask for," he an swered. Christy half rose. She thought she would feel safer on her feet, and at that moment the door opened. "The mistross wants you in her room at once, Miss Christy, and shall I bring in the lamp?" Christy went up swiftly to her grand mother-a little shocked at having for gotten her for so long, and a good deal relieved at having gained time before giving her answer. Mrs. Wallace was sitting in ber chair by the window, from which she might have seen Mr. John's approach to the house. "So John Tur ton's here," she said, in her quiok, sharp way. "What's he come for, ' Christy ? What's he come for?" Christy's wits were hardly sufficient ly collected for her to give an immedi ately intelligible answer. "Never min i," said the old lady, nodding cheerfully, "wo all know that he has not come to Bee if his brother is "left behind by mistake. Now, look here, Cbristy, John Turton is here to propose to yon, and you are a fool ii you say no. He's no fool and he's worth a dozen of his brothers. Har old was good enough for Blanche, but he was not good enough for you, and I was not vexed when he threw yon over for her. You take John ; be's tho man for you," and the old lady nod ded more aud moro vigorously in ap probation. "But, granny-n begflft Christy, ftp?-' pealiagly. ll "Tat, tat I Never mind gran There, yea don't want to be vex yourself with tho notion that I ci do without you-I can manage, I manage! You do as I bid you. down and drop a pretty oourtesy ) Bay, 'If yonpleapo, Mr. John.' Th the thing, and there is no Harolc come between you this time. Sc old women aren't BO blind as tl look, my dear. Come here, Christ seeing how her grandchild st? irresolute, with faoo working and e suspiciously misty. "Bend down i kiss your granny. You have bee good child to me, and a comfort e 6ince I had you, and I want to see ] happily settled. John's the man you. Go down to him, and to-mori yon* can send him up to me ; I dc want to nee him to-night." Bnt Christy lingered, kneeling her grandmother, really crying soft overoome by the tenderness from si an unexpected source, coming on top of 60 many disquieting things. Mrs. Wallace did not allow her cry long. ..That's enough, Christy!" she B briskly. .'Cheer up nul get abi your business. You are keeping 1 man waiting. " So Christy had to go down. I John, listening with the ears of anxious lover, heard every footfall the stairs; heard uncertain steps co across the hall, uncertain fingers 1 on the door-handle. His heart b as irregularly as her feet moved. His eyes sought hers as ehe entei -eagerly, anxiously. "What has M Wallace said to you?" .'She said that John Turton h come to proDoso to me, and 1 wa fool if I said no. Oh, John I" she sa in a voice thf.t was smothered in j embrace, "if I was not good enou for Harold-'" "Let Harold be; he has done harm -enough already, Christy," said, with his voice tremulous witl tnnltitnde of feelings. "Iampromot to be John, and I feel that I am gro ing up 1" "John," she repeated, still mu smothered, ' 'I-I suppose they w naturally say Mr. and Mrs. Tur tc won't they? ' We shall both be gro up. then. "-The Home Queen. WORDS OF WISDOJT. . _ No sin is so little that it may n become the soul's master. ? Looking a difficulty square in tl face will often kill it dead. No prayer meeting was ever kill by the prayers being too short. To close our hearts against a broth is to shut heaven against ourselves. The world has learned more fro ita poor than it has from its kings. The man who robs another of h right lose? most by the transaction. ' Beware of the sin whose only di fense is that it is highly respectabl A poor man with a sunny spirit wi get more out of life than a wealtL grumbler. .r When lovo gives it enriches itsel but what covetousness keeps it tak from itself. Boil down many a man's religic and it will be found to have been not] ing but froth. Love is dead when the husband b( gins to grudge the money it takes t support his wife. It is not what we have, but what \* do with what we have, that proves or fitness for promotion. There.must be a constant dying ti a lower life if we would know what i mens to enjoy a higher one. The mau who spends his timo i counting hypocrites generally make a miscount by not putting himself a the head of the list. There is some blessing in bein rich and strong and gifted, but ther is more in being none of these, an yet doing b9t ;er than they. When the preaching is against sin that are not known this side of Chino and no other, the devil wiil help th preacher to gol a congregation. Go forth with a omile on your face and you will return believing tha most people aro good natured. Wea a frown and you will find plenty o quarrelsome people.-Barn's Horn. Diseases of (jems. . Preoious stones are subject to vari ons maladies much the 6ame as ord! nary human beings. Many of th maladies of gems are incurable am often prove fatal as far as the beaut] of the stone is concerned. One of ta: commonest infirmities of preciou! stones is their disposition to chang? color. The emerald, the sapphire ant the ruby are commonly supposed tc have absolutely permanent colors, and yet it has boen found by recent experiment in Paris that long expos ure to light causes them to fade per ceptibly. In the garnet and the topaz thc change ia often comparatively rapid. This fading is accompanied in rubiee and garnets by a oloudy, dull appear ance. Tho habit which some gems have of cracking unexpectedly and with?ut any apparent cause seems to be incurable. Opals aro considered the most "unlucky" of all gems. They often become so sensitive that the heat encountered by the wearer sitting close to a fire will destroy them. The lustre of an opal is due to myr iads of minute cracks in the bodv of the stone, the edges of which reflect the light at different angles, produc ing its characteristic prismatic colors. Any one of those myriad of cracks may cause the gam to split. The misfortunes of pearls are almost too numerous to be classified. Since the pearls consist entirely of carbon ate of lime, they are exceedingly sen sitive to all sorts of reactions. Thrown into a fire at an ordinary red heat they are instantly converted into a mere pinch ot lime dust, and if aoci dently touched with any corroding acid are ruined. They are easily cracked or broken, and orten lose their lustre merely by being handled. The acid contained in the perspiration of the skin has also been known tc destroy them.-New York World. Diet far the Pet Dog. The best menu for a pet dog con sists of bread and milk, oatmeal boiled in broth, vegetables mixed with gravy (cabbage or greens of some kind, flavored with gravy, should be given two or three times a week in place ol the grass which he would cat if he could get it), b iscuit3 and puppy oakes and an occasional bone, without meat, for the benefit of his teeth, which will otherwise become loose from want of uso ; water to any extent and an occasioaul pinch of powdered sulphur, especially in warm weather, by the way of u condiment. Flowers in Bedrooms. Never keep growing flowers in a bedroom. They draw from tho air the very gases which nature demands for a human being while in sleep. In this respect hu f a dozen out or grow ing roses would tak3 more vital gases away from a Bleeper than another toonpast io tho same apartment, Sunny Harbor or Stormy Sea? Sometimes I wonder which is best for me Tho sunny hart or or the stormy sea. How may tho soul woo rest, yet grow mon bru ve; "Woo culm, yet battle with oach warring wave; Win love, yet not forget the loveless kind; Wm heaven itself, yet bear the world ix mini? -Ella Giles Ruddy, in the Century., The Old, Old Friends. Tho old, old home! Some ohnnged; somo buried; some gone out of sUht; Some enemies, and ia tho world's swir flight No time to make amends The old, old frlonds! Where aro they? Three aro lying in one grave; And ono from tho far-off world, on the dallj wave, No loving message sends. The old, dear fronds! One passes d tily: and ono wears a mask; Another, ?ons otranged, cares not to ask Where causeless anger ends. Tho dear old frlonds! So many an I BO foa I In days of youth! Alas that Faith eau he divorced from Truth, When love ia severance ends! Tho oi l. old friends! They hov>r round mo still in evening shades; Surely they will return when sunlight faded, And life on God depends. The Good Time ls the Present Timo. Tho good time comln?! "tts tho theme Or-nviny a bard's propho.ii thought; Th ? good time eo:nlug long foretold Has cj;ne with brighten pronise fraught. Who hoods lt not but idly stan ls, And hopi?s and waio, shall some time weep O'er slighted days and squandered years, For he who plants not shall not reap. 0. workman by tho forge and Aro, 0, patient toiler In tho fluid, Thu good tlTi". if you use lt well, To you life's full reward shall yield. If for a bettor timo we wait Its dawning we any n !ver soo, Au t disappointment, trrlof and pala Our portion ia this life shall be. Walt not! bohol I tho day ?hat is With opportunity is prime, Tis wi?e to us J it while we may The good time is tho present timo. -Caleb Dunn, in the Ledger. "But Yet a Woman." So raro she is, so fair she is, I'm happy only where she is. To seo a be luty gleam of her, Then when away to dream of her, Makes evin absence a delight, Illumined by reflected light. Ro sweot she is, so dear sho ls, Mv heart leaps up when near she is. Hcrvok'o with feeling tremulous, Makes every song bird emulous; And whoa it speaks to me I know But only this-I love her so! So goo I sho is. so nure she is, Of woman's best Tm sure she is; And love has opened the door to me, So what nan life give more to me? No merit lu myself I seo, Yet her 0>ar hand has lifted me. -George Birdseye, In the Boston Transcript, Sorrow and Song. Weep uot over poet's wrong, Mourn not his mischances Sorrow ls i he source ot song And of gentle landes. Rills o'er rocket beds are borne Ere they gush in whiteners; Pebbles are wave-chafed and worn, Ero they show their brightuess. Swoetest gleam the morning flowers When in tears they waken; Earth enjoys refreshing showers When the boughs are shaken. Ceylon's glistening pearls ore sought Ia Its deepest wator>; From its deepest m lues aro brought Gems for beauty's daughters. Through the rent au I shlvored rock Limpid w.itor broaketh; 'Tis but when the chords aro struck That their music waketh. Flowers by heedless footstops prest AU their sweets surrender; Gol i must brook the llery test; Ero it shows its splendor. When tho twilight, cold and damp, Gloom und silence bringeth, Then the glow-worm lights its lamp, And ibo bulbul singeth. Stars come lort li when night her shroud Brawn, as daylight fainieth; Only on tho tearful cloud God his rrflnbjw paintotb. Weep not then o'er poet's wrong, Moura not his mischances Sorrow is the source of song, Aua of gentle fancies. -Homo Queen. Alter Death. When I am dead, The grass around mo will grow just as green And flowers as brightly bloom above my head, As those which ah these summors I have Been, When I am dead. When I am dead, Upon my grave the soft, slow raia will fall, And wash tho flowers strewa o'er my lowly bod, And night will settle down, my funeral pall, When I am dead. When I am dead, And will one come to weep and weep again, Wuen low thesuu has tinged the sky with red, Choosing for life's song, one sad, minor strain, When I am dead? . Or, when Fm dead, Will this heart always hold aud keep me true, And with my memory fond be comforted, Singing with hope that last, loa,', sad adieu, Whoa 1 am dead? I cannot tell How this will be of me. but still I know, Tho autumn leav s will fall abo v.) my head, And o'er my grave tho sad, south winds will blow, When I am dead. -May Wilson Todd, In Houston Post. Bismarck's Love for Children. It is impossible ever to have been within the Bismarck family cirole without seeing proof that the Iron Chancellor is not ali of iron, says the Ladies/ Home Journal. I have seen him with his own children-now tall men and women-and with other children. His affeotion for his own needs no testimony ; he has always shown it. His affection and pride in his eldest son and successor, Count Herbert, are part of his nature. I have seen Prince Bismarck also with troops of children who came to Frederiohsruhe to visit him. His manner to them was oharming, his outstretched haud upon the heads of those nearest to him, the kindly caress, the sympathetic greeting these are so many traits of personal character and of a true gentleness of nature which the outside world, think ing only of his lifo of storm and stress, might not expeot to find. But there they are. Fait li I ul Domestics. Housewives in Norway and Sweden have started a scheme to encourage ser vunts to remain in their places. Mis tresses pay into a general fund what ever they can afford for every servant that has remained with them for twelve months. Tho money is registered in tho servant's namo, so that when age overtakes her, and 6he can no longer work, she has a comfortable annuity to fall back on,-Philadelphia Ledger, The Kew Telephone Girl She was a new girl at the central telephone exchange. Her previous experience in.this big and busy world had been behind the counter at Chintz & Chally's. Nevertheless, she was a pleasanl spoken young lady,and amiability was written all over her nature. She had adopted as her motto the touching sentence, "We strive to please,"and she honestly tried to live up to it. There was a ring at the bell. She applied her ear to the instru ment and asked sweetly: "What number, please?" "Let me have No. 474." "I am sorry that No. 474 is busy now," she replied. "You can have No. 473 or No. 475 if you wish." The individual at the other end of the wire hung up his receiver and used language which plainly showed that all efforts to please do not necessarily succeed.-Harper's Bazar. BEIABKiBLE KEC0TEB? Retrospection. Mrs. Grogan-Ph wat happened your j mau Dinny he's in th* harspital? Mrs. Doogan-Business revurses, Hrs. Grogan.. Mrs. Grogan-Share, I fought he ? had stiddy wurruk 'ilin' the shaftin' in the power house? Mrs. Doogan-He had, 'til the shaft in' caught in his overalls and the re- ; vurses came t'ick an' fasht, sorra th' day.-New York Sun. Of a Tonnie Lady of GM port, Kew York, (rom Anaemia. From Vie Courier, B?falo, AT. T. MIBS Lulu Stevens, daughter of George Slovens, the well-kuown blacksmith, of Gas port, Niagara, County, New York, han sur* prised her neighbors considerably, by not dying five months ago, whoa the physicians said she could not live. This was quite a remarkable case. Th? young woman, who is very well known, on account of her musical ability, had bern a very healthy girl, until about one year ago, when she began to fail, and gr?*w so palo and apparently bloodless and so weak that after a few months she was given up to die. Last winter a physician wno was a visitor at Gasport met Miss Stevens, and seeing her emaciated condition, nnd bearing from the local doctors that the disease was ana. ada. prevailed on the girl's mother to make her try Dr. Williams'Pink Pills. Directly she commenced the treatment she began to mead, and now sine? February, when she decided to take them, she has become well and strong and tho picture of good h^a tb. The mother of the girl, Mrs. Stevens, says: "Every one In Gasport knows that P nk Pills cured Lulu, aud I feel very thankful that we heard of them in time to save my child's life." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills ?ontaln, In a con densed form, nil the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerve.'. They are also a specific for troubles pecul ar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities mid all forms of weakness. They build up the blood, and restore the glow of nenlth to palo end Ballow cheeks. In men they affect a radical cure in all cases arising iro n mental worry, overwork or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills aro .sold in boxes (never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box or SKI boxes for $2.50, and may be bad of al! druggies, or direct by mail from Dr. Will ams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Motherhood A mother who is in good physical condition transmits | to her children thc blessings of a good constitution. Thc child fairly drinks in health from its mother's 1 robust constitution before birth, and from a healthy mother's milk after. Is not that an incentive to prepare for a healthy maternity? Do you know thc meaning of what is popularly called those "long ings,"' or cravings, which beset so many women during pregnancy? There is something lacking in tho mother's blood. Nature cries out and will bc .satisfied at all hazards. One woman wants sour things, another wants sweets, another wants salt things, and so on. The real need all the time is to enrich the blood so as to supply nourishment for another life, and to build up the entire generative system, so that the birth may he possible and successful. If expectant mothers would fort ify themselves with Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, which for twenty years has sustained thousands of women in this condition, there would be fewer disappointments at birth, aud they would not experience those annoying " longings." In the following letter to Mrs. Pfnkham, Mrs. Whitney demonstrates the power of thc Compound in such cases. She says: From thc time I was sixteen year.-; old till I was twenty-three, I was troubled with weakness of thc kidneys and terrible pains when my monthly periods came on. I made up ny mind to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and was soon relieved. After I was married, thc doctor said I would never be able to go my full time and have a living child, as I was constitutionally weak. I had lost a baby at seven months and a half. The next time I commenced at once and continued to take your Compound through the period of pregnancy, and I said th.^n. if I went my full time and the baby lived to bo three months old. I should send a letter to you. My baby is now seven months old and is as healthy and hearty as one could wish. " I am so thankful that I used your medicine, for it gave me thc robust health to transmit to my child. I cannot express my gratitude to you; I never expected such a blessing. Praise God for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Conn. ind may others who are suffering do as I did and find relief, and may mu ; homes be brightened as mine has been."-MBS. L. Z. WHITNEY, 5 Georre St., JBrSomeryiile, Mass. io* 25* 50* ALL DRUGGISTS TIT'PT V f niDHKIUJPn to coro any easeof constipation, faicmts ar* Ute Ideal Lasa ?D?UbUlljbl UliAR?luLEjU tire, never rrip or (tripe, hut ?-anuo easy natural resalta. Sam' _ rrip or gripe. pie and booklet free. Ad. 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