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OLD TIME ALEXANDER BX WILLIAM I nm monarch of all I survey, , My right there is none to dispute; Frtm the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0, Solitude, where arc the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell ia. the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. I am oat of humanity's reach: I ?list finish my journey alone; Never hear the 6weet music of speech; I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see; They are so unacquainted with men Their tameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship and love i '' Divinelv bestowed upon mani Oh. *ad I the wings ot a dove, How soon would a taste you again! My sorrows I then might assuage In the ways of religion and truth; Might learn from the wisdom of age And be cheered by the sallies of youth. bankrupted fi BY EMMA INETEEN, twenty, twenty one," sr ld the bald-headed mau. 'Twenty-one name sakes I've got to ldok after w,ben birthdays come round. What a confound edly inconvenient thing it is to be popular!" "You bet it is," said the man with the red mustache. "I never experienced any inconvenience on that score my self, but I know other folks who have. I know one fellow who was sent to jail on account of his popularity." The bald-headed man ceased figur ing. "Dear me!" he said, weakly. "Yes, slr," repeated the man with the red mustache, "he was sent to jail. He just got out last week. I am glad he ls out. Joe is a mighty good fellow. Good fellows are scarce these days, and it is a shame to keep one of them shut up in jail. I never saw such a popular fellow as Joe used to be. He was one of the kind that peo ple name their babies after, and that is the very top notch of popularity. "His friend, Tom Curtis, began the business. Tom clerks in a Nassau street bank. He is no end of a good fellow, and be and Joe often used to take luncheon together. One day, when Joe.went into the bank nt noon time, he found Tom with his face spread out In one solid grin. " 'Hello,' said Joe,' 'what's the racket?' " 'A boy,' said Tom. 'Arrived last night* and just guess, you old scala wag, what we are going to call him?' "Joe wasn't a blt stuck on himself in those days, and he never tumbled to the real situation. 'Can't do it,' said be. " 'We're going,' said Tom, 'to call him after the bravest, the kindest, the most affable gentleman in the world.' "Joe thought he saw a light. 'Ah!' sahl lie. 'Teddy, eh? Teddy R.?' " 'Not on your life,* said Tom. 'We are goiug to call him Joseph Webster.' "Joe was new to that sort^of flattery, and lt pleased, hun Immensely. He steered Tom into a more expensive restaurant than they usually patron ized, and then both had more than was good for them. While in that surcharged state Joe made the mistake of his life. " 'Tom,' Baid he, 'I am comiug up to see that boy of yours, and I am going to do the handsome thing by him.' "Tom eyed Joe through a mist of real tears. 'I knew you would,' he said, 'and my wife said she knew you would. When I mentioned Joseph Webster to her this morning ns a possible handle for the kid she said she was agreed, because you were just the kind to do the square thing by your namesake. It is a pleasure to learn, Joseph, that we were not mistaken in our estimate Df your character.' "Joe lived up to his reputation gal lantly. He did more than the square thing by young Curtis. He gave him a present of $100 on the day of the christening. That was Joe's undoing. Tom's wife had the habit -of telling everything she knew; so of course she told that. In less than a week all Joe's friends as far away as the re motest edges of Brooklyn and Staten Island knew about that present. With in sh* months every fellow with whom Joe had ever swapped a cigar or a yarn seemed to have been blessed with a new boy and had named him Joseph "Webster. The worst of it was, evor-y~ one of these happy fathers expected a christening offering of $100. The first half dozen got lt, but after Jthat Joe had to cut down expenses. First, he re duced the amount to $50. then to $20. and finaliy to $10. That made the mothers of the late comers mod. They called Joe stingy and said they would not have burdened their babies with such an ugly name as Joseph Webster if they had known that was all they were going to get out of lt. * "Joe thought, when he dropped to the five-dollar mark, that his friends would stop adding Joseph Websters to the City Directory, but they kept up their infernal christening parties till they found he was dead broke. It took just two years to break him. When people began paying their respects to him in that expensive way lie had about $5000 that his grandfather had left him and a nice little business that cleared him au income of more than a thousand a year. His namesakes de voured it all-interest and principal alike. Finally, he closed up shop, and with the proceeds derived from a cash sale of the stock on hand he started a little combination stationery, tobac co, confectionery and delicatessen store up on Sixty-fourth street. ' When he moved into that store Joe cut loose from all his old associates. His wife went with him, and aside from her he hoped never to see any one whom he had known in his days of affluence. It would have been better If he could have left her behind, too, but that was i.ot convenient. She put bad notions into Joe's hend. .' 'I think,' said she. 'that we shall drum up a pretty fair trade in this neighborhood if you can only make yourself popular.' "For the first time in his life Joe threw-hard words at the partner of his joys. 'Popular!' said he. 'Good beav ens, I don't want to be popular. I've been popular long enough. I want to make^pedple hate me, and if I eau devise any way to accomplish that purpose I .shall set about doing lt at once.' "'In that case,' said his wife, 'you will not sell anything, and we shall fltarve to death.; * m FAVORITES i. SELKIRK. Ye winds that have made rae your sport, Convey* to this desolate shore Some cordial, endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me? Oh. teli me I yet have a friend, Thong- a friend I am never to sec! How fleet is the glance of a mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native lana, In a moment I seem to be there; But, alas, recollection at hand boon hurries me back to despair. But the sea fowl is gone to her nest; The be.ist is laid down in his lair; Even here is a season of rest, And-1 to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought, Gives even affliction a grace And reconciles man to his lot. pi M. WISE. " 'It is no harder/ said Joe, 'to starve through lack of popularity than through excess of it. We have al ready been brought to ruin by the latter means; we moy as well try the former for a change.' "The second day after Joe got set tled in his little shop he went to .1 down-town market anil bought live bushels of speckled apples and oranges and seventeen pounds of stale candy. He intended to sci! all that truck at regular prices, but iu the afternoon when he was out his wife noticed its unsound condition and gave it away to the children of the neighborhood. With thc exception of a few cases of cholera morbus, which the parents at tributed to causes other than the gen erosity of Joe's wife, the youngsters pulled through without" any serious aches and pains, and from that day Joe was solid with the old folks. "A week later several of the men whose pocketbooks had. been spared many recent raids for stray pennies on account of the free gorging of their offspring met in tho shop under Joe's store and discussed plans for showing Joe how much they thought of him. They finally agreed upon a way. The next morning a committee of three called and told Joe what they proposed doing. " 'As an evidence of our apprecia tion of you,' said the spokesman, 'we have decided that all the boys born In this vicinity during the next two years shall be called Joseph Webster.' "Joe fell over in a heap against the Swiss cheese. 'Good Lord!' he said. "Joe's way of taking their announce? ment did cot exactly appeal to the committee. 'You do not seem pleased,' they saiil. M 'Oh, yes, I am,' replied Joe. 'I am overcome with, emotion. I appreciate your appreciation very muclr.' "And then, even though Joe knew he was making a fool of himself, his natural gratitude and generosity got the best of his common sense and he made another rash promise. 'It is very sweet of you to honor me so,' he said. 'Of course I will reciprocate. "I will give to the little Joseph Websters a christening present ofv$2 a head.' "The committee blesse 1 Joe and went away. The next day they began to import kids. Never had Joe seen boys come to town in such overwhelming numbers. They arrived In shoals. Just as soon as people got wind that the stork was coming round they moved into that neighborhood just to devil Joe. But he 6tood all the imposition, and good-naturedly gave up a two dollar bill at each christening till some people down on Amsterdam avenue be gan to ring In girls on him by calling them Josepha. Then he thought lt time to kick. " 'No more of this namesake non sense for me,' he said. 'I am going to put a stop to it.' "'How?' asked his wife. " 'Never you mind,' said Joe. 'I will fix that all right.' "In the afternoon Joe called on n lawyer named Farks. T want to change my name,' said Joe. "Parks disapproved, on principle, of his clients changing their names. Usually he tried to argue them out of the notion. He tried to argue Joe Webster out of it. " 'Why aren't you. satisfied with your name?' he said. 'Webster is a great name in history-a name t.*> be proud of. Best of all, lt ls easily remem bered, and nobody need ever lose au opportunity to do you a favor on ac count of being unable to recall your name.' "Webster doubled up his fist as If he had half a mind to knock Parks down. It was a formidable fist and the lawyer flinched. Joe forced a pacificatory smile. 'Never mind,' he said. 'You are in no danger. When you learn the facts you will no longer insist that the euphony and the un forgetability of the name of Webster are good things.' "Then Joe gave Parks the facts. Even though a lawyer, Parks sympa thized. 'What do you want to call yourself?' he asked. "'Melancthon Gabrilowithzski,' said Joe. 'I don't think they will get on to (hat without a good deal of trouble.' " 'No,' said Parks, 'they won't, but I am afraid there are legal difficulties In the way of your adopting a new name at present. When did your con tract to pay the two-dollar christening bills go into effect?' " 'Eighteen months ago,' said Joe. "'It has still half a year to run,* said Parks. 'You are under obligation to pay the bills for that length of time. If you change your name and try to shirk your responsibility on the ground that your name is not Webster, but Gabrilowirzski they can bring suit against you on the ground of taking a new name while wound up in finan cial entanglements and can put you in jail.' "'Very well,' said Joe, 'I will go to jail. Not another cent of christening money will I pay. I have already becif mulcted for baptismal offerings to 12.'{ small boys, and I would rather lie in jail than set the rest of them up for life.' "Joe got his name changed and paint ed a new sign on his windows and awning. When he began to stand on his rights the parents of the would-be Joseph Websters went to law. They proved, as Parks had prophesied, that Joe had gained the name ?f Gabrilo wltzskl under false representations, and he was sent to jail. Fortunately, his time is up and he is free again. Ut; has started in business under his new name, and I think the admirer who calls his boy by that unmanage able combination of consonants will deserve a present." The bald-heoded man looked Rid. "I do not wish to go to jail," he said. "I think I shall buy the twenty-one birthday presents."-New York Times. QUEER SUPERSTITIONS. Had Lack Sure to Follow If Yon Arc Broke on Thnrsriny. "However smart a mau may be, how ever deep of brain, I hore is yet a trace of superstition in his makeup," said ?1 thoughtful man, "and often it exists nnd controls him lu various ways with out his knowing anything about lt. If you should telAiin that he was super stitious he would resent it, and in no uncertain way. But all meu are super stitious in some way just thc same. There are little thiugs about which men aro a bit cranky, and they develop into well-rouuded superstitions. There is Opie Reid, who has a queer little notion that If ho gets up Thursday morning without money lu his pocket it is bad luck, and he believes lt so firmly that he will not venture out of tue house and will not turn his hand to a piece of Work if it happens to him. "He is generally very careful to see that he has something left over Wednesday night, a nest egg, as the saying goes, for Thursday morning. But sometimes bc forgets, and sud denly discovers that he is dead broke. That settles ft. Not a step will he take from the house on that morning. Now, how is that for superstition? Yet, call him superstitious-well, you had better do it wt loug range. I knew another man in Chicago who has a queer little notion that lt is bad bick to forget anything when you are leav ing home In the morning. One morning we had walked to th.> car together. He suddenly turned on mc with thc statement, TH not go to the city to day.' When I asked him why he said he had forgotten something. 'It's bad luck,' he said, and was unceremonious ly making tracks for tho house when he said it. I suppose wc all have those little notions and beliefs, but wc are not conscious of them, and so we arc apt to believe, and quito honestly, too, that we are not the least blt raperstl* tious. But we are, just the same;" New Orleans Times-Democrat Art of Pleasing. The art or pleasing consists in mak ing our dally lives agreeable to others as well as to ourselves, says the Catii' olic Mirror. To throw a grain of tho Idea and of poetry Into our surround ings is to make them less commonplace and more congenial. If a woman has the tact of making others comfortable then she is eudowed with the gift of making life happy. The gracious wom an shines through a collection of beau tiful qualities. She not only pleases the eye by her outward air of fresh ness and health? but she charms the mind by a characteristic worth. The cultivation of the physical or tho body, produces the bloom of health; but quite ns necessary in making a woman boa?; tifnl is the cultivation of the intellect, which givce hoi' the inimitable attrac tion of knowledge. Thou there is thc cultivation of the heart, which gives her those gentle graces which are to her what the perfume is to the ll o wer. A certain great bishop struggled through sore difficulties without repin ing or manifesting Impatience. A friend inquired how he could be so cheerful under such circumstances. "My secret," replied the old bishop, "consists iu nothing more than making a right use of my eyes." His friend asked him to explain, and the bishop did so as follows: "In whatever state I am. first of all I look np to Heaven, aud remember that my principal busi ness here is to get there: I then look down upon the earth, and call to mind how small a place I shall occupy in it when I am dead and buried. I then look abroad into the world and ob serve what multitudes there are who are in all respects more happy than myself. Thus I learn where true hap piness Is r la ced, where all cares must end, and what little reason I have tc repiue or complain." ?? And Suoli ls FHUre". A short time agq, some men were seen in Pine street, near the Sub-Treas ury. "How's that for an equalized political quartet?" remarked a veteran newspaper man to a well-known dry goods merchant who has lived in this city ever since lie was born, sixty-two years ago. "Who are they?" was thc merchant's rejoinder. "Face of the small map i3 kind o' familiar.'* The newspaper mau collapsed. The quar tet were Alonzo B. Cornell, once Gover nor; William F. Sheehan, once Lieuten ant-Governor; Hamilton Fish, twice Speaker of tho State Assembly, and the "small man" was once Secretary of War, Dan Lamont. Of course, now, Fish is United States Assistant Treas urer and will be known for a while, for he is now again a man of to-day. Quite recently United States Senator Tom Platt was seen shaking hands heartily with a white-haired gentleman on Fifth avenue. Everybody knew Flatt, because he Is a man of to-day. "That's Edward Murphy, .Tr., ot Troy." remarked a passer-by, pointing to thc white-haired man. No person remem bered that he was Chauncey Dopew's predecessor ns the United States Sena tor from this Slate. It happened one evening that three men were at thc same theatre. No one in tho theatre but the manager knew who they were; no one recognized them g'dng Into the theatre or coming out with the crowd. Yet they were former Mayors of New York-Ely, Grant and Yan Wyck, thc latter being only out of office eighteeu mouths.-New York Press. lias a Wonderful f imopiocc. One of the most wouderful watches In the world is that owned and made by Major DoppIug-IIepenstal, of the Royal Engineers. It ls a comparative ly small watch, not much bigger thfin an ordinary lever, but lt performs fl variety of services In addition to tell ing the time. It rings an alarm bell In the morning to wake its owner, then it proceeds to light a spirit lamp and boil a kettle of water, and finally pours the boiling water into a small teapot. The Prince of Wales witnessed the wonderful performance of this watch and partook of a cup of tea which It made for his royal highness. Governmental l'oHltlons f?o Hogging. It ls said that live life positions in the Civil Engineer Corps of the Navy Department, each with a sula ry ot $2700 attached, went begging till? spring, because there wen; no satisfac tory applicants. The only explana tion suggested IR that there ls so great a demand for civil engineers in private life that these Government places wore not sufficiently attractive, and yet most persons would be likely to think that they would be eagerly sotlgbl after, especially as the pay is in creased after five years, aud ls uiadt $3500 after ten yea--" TOMATO CULTURE IN THE SOUTH. Attains Its Highett Degree of Perfection in Mississippi. The place where tomato culture can be said to have attained its highest de j gree of perfection is Crystal Spring?, j Miss., and the methods employed by thc growers of that section can be advantageously followed by every gar dener, if not commercial grower. The unusual feature of th? system con sists in pruning the plants, and the plan has been followed by the writer in his home garden since 1805, when he learned of it in the Florida winter to mato section. Coincident with the appearance of the third leaf of a young tomato plant will come a sucker or branch;.and as the plant grows, additional suckers will appear in the axil of each leaf until a vigorous plant will have twenty ; or more branches, the larger ones hav ing branches of their own, and the whole plant spreading over an area of ten or twelve square feet? Such a plant, of course, requires an Immense amount of soil nutrition and moisture to support in foliage. The Crystal Springs planters set their tomatoes somewhat nearer than do ordinary growers-as close as three by three and one-half feet-and when the first sucker is two inches lcng it is pinched out, as arc likewise all suckers appear ing thereafter. Before the plaut be gins to fall, light pine stakes are driven in the ground and the plants tied to them with ordinary cotton strings. ! The tomato is then trained up this slake, requiring three or four tyJngs, until lt reaches the top. four feet from the ground. Then the bud ls pinched out. This gives a plant with about twelve or fourteen great leaves, four times the size of the ordinary tomato leaf, and five or six clusters of mag ? nlficent, perfect fruit. Thc patch now ! looks like a diminutive orchard loaded j with fruit. Bushels of ripe tomatoes are lu plain sight as the eye wanders j over thc field. Under this method there j ls no danger of tomatoes rotting ot j mildewing; they ripen seven or eight j days earlier than if the plants are left to their own devices or stalked in I the ordinary way, and lt ls practicable to get through the rows nt any time and keep down objectionable weeds, and perhaps the most Important, the plants having a comparatively small I leaf surface for transpiration do not I require nearly so much moisture to I mature their fruit. If a somewhat bushier plant ls de ; sired, the vine can bc trained to two Instead of to rt single stem.-ScIcntiOc American, WORDS OF WISDOM; I Love is delicate; "love is hurt with j Jar and fret," and you might as well ? expect a violin to remain lu tune if : roughly used as love to survive if I chilled of driven Into itself.-Slr John Lubbock. Religion Is not the conception of God, but tlie love of Him. It is not the ab stract Idea of right, but the practical doing of light; it is not the absolute formula bf truth, but the being true. The substance ls more than the sh a d o w.-Au s 11 n G arver. If despair overwhelm thee in this abode of gloom, bo wisc and prepare for thyself n pince of greater cheerful ness. Wishest thou the night of the grave to be luminous as day, carry along with thee ready trimmed the lamp of good works.-Sa adi. ? see beginings In man, no end; wrestling, not achievement; unfoidUig^.. not maturity. Still he sighs for light, more light. Upon the borders of the . grave he stands, abd stretches out his hands to Infinity ?iid eternity for light, for progress-, for new fields resplendent With everlasting light and glory.-Or ville Dewey. "Quench not the spirit." It ls a word of deep wisdom and warning. It j means, among other things, "Do thy I solf no harm." Preserve your iudlvld i na li ty. Do not impair the life forces, j Do not disqualify yourself for receiving ; impressions of reality from the world I around or illuminations from the light., ! within.-Charles G. Ames. i I do not in my beat moods think of death, but of lifo. I would live as though there was no such thing Itt the world as death for me or for others. 1 would live With my thoughts amid . things that endure, in work and duty i and love, until death Itself is consumed ' in life, the resurrect ion going on day ! by day, this mortal putting on linmor i tality.-Horatio Stebbins. A Wontlerftil Knie. H. M. JoneB, an architect of this city, lins produced a remarkable in j ventiou Jn the shape of a mechanic's ; pocket measuring rule, on which he I has been studylug for several years. Ile has taken a cheap, common rule, and without Increasing or diminishing Its original size, weight, appearance or original usefulness or convenience, has produced a rule that will give the j length and levels of the ends of all ? kinds of braces or rafters. It will square off a board or square ! and lay out a cellar, make an octagon ' or square mitre. It will tell the height of any building or elevation, tho depth of any valley or chasm, the width of any street or stream, or both. An chor a boat in the middle of a river, and the rule will tell how far it is from the shore; a roofer can tell the dimensions of any roof while standing on the ground; rt will measure any thing in sight, whether in reach or not; lt will give the length of any straight or slanting line, lt solves all the problems in geometry and trigon ometry tl?? mechanic ls ever called upon to soho. Thc Improvement can be attached to all h.Tids of rules lu use, whether of the French or English systems, and to a new rule while making. One cent per rule will pay the cost of the Improvements; to a rule already made It will coet two cents a rulo.-Meridian Journal. Ilad a Practical Proof. Early in the sixteenth century the natives of Porto Rico plotted to kill thc Spaniards on the Island. There was much doubt, however, as to whether or not lt was possible to kill a Spaniard. Many of the natives in sisted that it was not. Finally lt was decided to make an experiment. A young Spaniard who was passing through the Indian village was hos pitably received and fed and then a number of natives accompanied him on his journey. When he arrived at a river his companions offered to carry him across. The young man accepted and was taken up by two men and car ried Into the water on their shoulders. Arriving near the middle of the river they threw him in and held him down until he ceased to struggle. Then they carried him ashore with profuse apolo gies, loudly proclaiming that they stumbled by accident and calling upon him to arise and contbiue his journey. But the young man did not move and finally the natives were convinced that he was actually dead. Having secured the proof they wanted the leaders bf the rebellion at once began a general attack upon the Snanlardr - SOCIAL LONGINGS. Miss Fraish-I wish you would tell me how I can break Into society. Miss Blahzey-I wish you would tell me how to break out of it!-Chi cago Tribune. 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J.Cbo noy (or tho last 16yean, and boliovehlm per fectly honorable tn alt business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tions made by their Hm;. WEST & TnuAX.WholooaioDruggists.Tolodo, Ohio. WALDINO, lliNNAXit^tAuvix,Wholesale Drug* gists, Tolodo. Ohio. HaU'aOatarra Cu re ls takon Internally, aot? lug dlroctly upon the blood and mucous sui? facesof thc sys te n, Testimoni?is sent free. Price, 75c. per bott lo, Sold by all Druggists, Hall's Family Fills aro the bostV The dyer may be far from being a dead one. Mra.Wiaslow's Soothing Syrup tor ohildm teothing.sortentho gums, reduces Inflamma llon,allayspuln,curos wind eulie. 25c. abottlo Even thc Umbrella manufacturer makes hay while the sun shines. Piso's Cure cannot be too highlyspokenot ns a cough euro.-J. W. O'BKIBN, 322 Third Avcnuo, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6,1900, Fame is only lasting aller a mau is dead. . ,uii? i-s? ?,i i?u ? .er s In the Au -<t St. Nicholas departments are .o especially intended to train young Miora' powers of observation and Iscrimination. Tho editor of Nature . Science asks the girls and boys o send him letters and photographs drawings of what they find on the oach in August. Thc Books and Read ig Department invites brief articles ;om its roaders on "Some Recant looks for ?oung People." The object f this contest, aside from the train ng of the contestants. Is to learn vhat books published in thc last wo )r three years have been enjoyed by young readers. Tho gins and hovs tre requested not to name books that avery one knows, but those tnat should >e better known. WILLIE AND SALLIE. "What's the matter, Willie? You don't seem to enjoy tho Hew pudding I baked." 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Mr. Saunders; your kind offer has quite overcome me. but wouldn't it be more seemly to wait until thc period of mourning has expired before we announce the engagement?-Philadelphia Tele grauh. COMPELLED TO USE A CRUTCH FOR El CURED MRS. P. CONLi Mrs. P. Conlin, 82 Green field Avenue. Carbondale, Pa..says: "Isuffered with backache, and, despite tho uso of medicines, I could not ?;et rid of it. 1 iras cothpellal o ii? a crutch for tight months, and a part of tho time was Unable to walk nt all. I fairly screamed If I attempted to lift my feot from tho tloor, and, finally, I lost control of my limbs through weakness, as I could neither bend nor straighten up to my full height, and If ?vera woman was in a serious condition, I was Ny hus band went to Kelly's drug store and brought home a box of Doan"s Pills. 1 felt easier in a few days. and. continuing thc treatment, 1 STATE For trre trial box FoFt<T.MHIiurfl Co.. Hi Hprvo i? imulUrii'iit, v rato clip. KM TAKE DOWF A Winchester Ta a strong shooting trap or duck shoo modified choke or lng, lists at only less. This makes reach of everybc Shotguns outshoc double barrel gur WINCHESTER REPE Al HIS TALENT. "John Henry, 111 thrash you sound ly if I ever catch you telling another story that isn't true." "And yet, ma, I heard you say to the minister that I had great imagina tion."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. ???I To cure, or mc A 30NQ OP LOVES. In the blue morn, the new morn, Beneath a sun-filled sky, Oh, I met a little Love When all the clouds were high; A little I ove, a wistful Love I would not have him stay; I loosed his hands, and kissed his Hps, And bade him fly away. In the warm noon, the s^oet noon, When all the air was gold, Oh, I met a fair, great Love With merry eyes and bold; So wise, so strong, so wonderful, Too high for my estate. He loosed my ham's, and kissed my lips, And left me desolate. In the deep night, the cold night. Who comes through wind and rain? Little Love I bade away Is at my sile again. And he hath .warmed my hands in his, And kissed my wet ayes dry. Oh, strange that he should comfort me For that great Love gone by. -John Winwood, in August Sm?rt Set. Features of Ainslee's for August. An Unwilling Guest (novel), by Wil liam Gordon-Perez. Lady Molly Cal verly (short story), b;- H. B. Marriott Watson. Ah Absent-Mindocl Love Af fair (short story), by Emery Pot'le. Thc Shield of Privilege vshort story), by Frederick Trevor Hill. The For.:e of Habit (short st^vy), by E. Nesbit. On the Girls that rlave Left Us (es say), by Frank S. Arnott. The Land of Regrets (short story), by John Oli ver Hobbes! The House of Anita (short story), by Lucia Chamberlain. A Friend of Princes (short story), by Charles Belmont Davis. In Perfume Land (essay), by Sidney Allan. Ol' Tom Talk (short story/ by Norm:-n Duncan. Other contributors: Herman K. Vielo S, E. Kiser. Harold MacGi'ath, Charles- Hanson Towne, Bayard Chil ler, Katherine M. 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Address Sterling Remedy Con ? srehant, so why not try it M SOUTH CAROLINA s Pe-ru-na Stomach Trouble Catarrh of the Stomach is Gsnerally Called Dyspepsia--Somsthing to Produce Artificial Di?es tion is Generally Taken. Hence, Pepsin, Pancreatin and a Host ol Other Digestive Renadies Have Been Invented, These Remedies Do Not Reach the Seat of the Difficulty, Which is Really Catarrh, IT? X. U. S. Senator M. C. Butler, from ?j h>outh Carolina, was Senator from that State for two terms. In a recent letter to The Bertina Medicine Co., from Washing ton, D. C., says: "1 can rt co tn me nd Paruna for dyspepsia and stomach trouble. 1 have bcenusing your medicine for a short period and. i feH very much relieved, lt ls Indeed a wonderful medicine besides a good tonic."-" M. C. lintier. The only rational way to cure dyspepsia is to remove the catarrh. Pcruna cures ca tarrh. Benina docs not produce artificial digestion, lt cures catarrh and leaves the stomach to perform digestion iu a natural way. This is vastly better and safer than resorting to artificial methods. Bertina lins cured more cases of dyspep sia than all other remedies combined, sim ply because it eurea catarrh wherever lo cated. If catarrh is located in the head. Bertina cures it. If catarrh has fastened itself in the throat or bronchial tubes. Pe rlina cures it. When catarrh becomes set tled in the stomach, Beruna curers it, as well in this location as in any other. Beruna is not simply a remedy for dys pepsia. Beruna is a catarrh remedy. Be runa cures dyspepsia because it is gener ally dependent upuu catarrh. REE ! "Wt TO WOMEN A Large Trial Package of A NEW SPECIALTY FOR WOMEN, Internal cleanliness ls the tey to woman's health and vigor. Inflammation, Soreness, TclvlC Catarrh cannot exist w:th lt. I*axtlnc un,'.! 115 u vaginal doacbe la a revelation la combined cleansing und heating power. It kills all disease germa. In local treatment ot female ills lt ls invaluable. 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