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GRIGGS AND WIGGS Siias, the Widower, Makes an Announcement. THE WIDOW'S GINGER TEA. Visitor'# Account of an Attack of Thoughts Causes the Hostess to Wonder What Is Coming?Not Just What She Expected. By M. QUAD. . e [Copyright. 1910, by Associated Literary Press.] I LAS GRIGOS la a widower, sixty years old, aud the village ^ J cooper. He has thoughts and views. Mrs. Wiggs Is a widow of about the same age, and she dreams dreams and sees signs. At T o'clock In the evening Silas Griggs entered th? house of Mrs. Wiggs without knocking or scraping his feet and sat down in the rocking chair that had been placed for him half an hour before. He didn't bow or speak. Neither did the widow. Not one single evening in Ave years had he missed the evening visit. It may have been ten minutes before Mr. Griggs fetched a long sigh and shook his head Iffsfll THOUGHTS THAT HEAT. I in the most solemn manner. The widow, who was knitting, looked over at him and observed: "Mr. Griggs, I'm not surprised." "Mrs. Wiggs, neither am I." "I've been expecting it for long weeks." "So have I." "If it was to be, Mr. Griggs, it would be." "It would. Mrs. Wiggs." "What does the doctor say?" "I haven't been to |iim." "But you will go? My dear Mr. ~ - ?ait fl* i.? tiriggs, or course you wui go. iucj must be got rid of. They must not be allowed to dwell lu the human system. 1 They are ngiu the health. They are opposed to our happiness. \ They won't let us do our best If George Washington had had one he'd never have been great. Mr Griggs, you must do something at ouce." "Mrs. Wiggs will. I will arise to ask what you are talking about." "Why. tapeworms, of course." "And where be they??" "You've got one. I knew it when you sighed ami shook your head. Folks with them animals eating away at them alius do that." "Mrs. Wiggs. allow me to call you a I *-n dried apple." "As an old friend. 1 will, though I'd rather you had said a pickled peach or | a preserve ! plum." I "It's mo! a tapeworm. it's not a frog i that I swallowed wlien a boy, it's not I that I'm losing my hearing, Mrs. Wiggs. but it is that"? | "Speak out. Mr. Griggs. Since I foil Into the well four years ago atul had to remain half a day before help eaine I can bear anything. We are old neighbors and friends. Give me your confidence." An Attack of Thoughts. "I will. Mrs. Wiggs. w hat alls me Is?thoughts." "Mercy on me! Where do they take you?" "All over. They fly from one spot to another." "And they are thoughts of what. Mr. Griggs?" "Thoughts of this thing and that thing. Mrs. Wlggs. I am making a barrel and thinkiug of the bunghole. Of a sudden my thoughts fly to Asia or Africa. It was only this afternoon when I was shaving out the staves for a butter flrkln that all at once my thoughts carried me up in a flying machine. That is what is troubling . me?thoughts. When a man bqelns to have 'em what is to foller? That's what I asks you. Mrs. Wiggs?what is to foller?" "The Lord only knows, Mr. Griggs! I should begin on sage tea if I was yon. When one begins to hare \ thoughts It shows a weakness of the system somewhere. When you've got I a weakness of the syrtem If s like baring a weakness In the leg of a chair. You sit down on that chair some day and smaah It goes." Mr. Griggs held his hands out to the stove and wanned and rubbeft them and made no reply, and after a bit Mrs. Wiggs hitched about uneasily, of-opped two stitches in her knitting and asked: "Was there only two or three thonghts, Mr. Griggs, or a great many?" "You've seen a hailstorm. Mrs. Wiggs? It was Just like that?millions of thoughts buzzing around." "And among 'em was there a thought?thought?that a man of your age should hat i a nice home Instead of living the lonei.v life Ik* does?" "There may have been." "And was there a thought tliat you could easily lind a woman who would | share Iter home with you?" "As likely as not." "And. .Mr. Griggs"? . "I hear you. Mrs. Wiggs." "And did you have a thought of any particular woman':" "1 may have had." "And her name is"? Mr. Griggs leaned hack In his chair and groaned and shook his head. "Is it that the thoughts have come back to yuuV" asked the widow iu alarm. " Tis so ? thoughts. thoughts, thoughts.' And then 1 have my views outside the thoughts." Mrs. Wiggs' R?m?dy. "Try some ginger tea. Mr. Griggs. I bought some fresh :it the grocery this morning. 1*11 he but n minute a-roaking it. I've beard that ginger tea is quieting to the nerves." "If you will 1h? so kind. Mrs. Wiggs." The tea was made and jsmred out into a cup for Mr. Griggs, who sipped it and looked at the ?-at. Then he sipI>ed it and looked at Mrs. Wiggs. Then he uttered an a-a-a-ah of satisfaction and quietly said: "Mrs. Wiggs. it was a great man that invented ginger." "I never thought of it before, Mr. Griggs, but it must have been." "He knew what he was about." "He surely did." "He loved bis country." "I believe your word." "He knew that after drinking ginger ten n man would feel a warm glow of the heart and that most of bis ! thoughts would fly away to bother him no tuore." I "And how Is it with you, Mr. Griggs?" "Only about one thought left, Mrs. Wiggs. and that is like a summer's dream!" "Thanks to heaveu! Them ball storm of thoughts might have flnv you crazy. I had a cousin who went crazy because of his thoughts. He couldn't sit down to a Jjoiled dinner without having though*. Thought^ was with him when he went to bed and when he got up in the morning. Once he was kicked by a horse and lay unconscious for several days, and yet the doctor said he was having thoughts all the time." Unexpected Finale. "I must quit the habit, Mrs. Wiggs." "You must, Mr. Griggs." "I'll just have one single thought!" "La, me!" "And that thought?that one single ; thought"? "Oh. you dear Mr. Griggs, but don't ! be too sudden! Let me prepare my; self!" "One thought, Mrs. Griggs?one i thought to carry with me night and day!" "Then, If you must, you must. Say j it, Mr. Griggs." "Mrs. Wiggs. it is the thought that i if I had been bom a cucumber this town might have had a cooper who'd . set up and hoop his barrels before boring the bungholes!" Wire Got Tip Top Advice. "My wife wanted me to take our boy to the doctor to cure an ugly boil,"writes D D Frankel of Stroud, Okla. "Isaid 'put Bucklen's Arnica .salve on it.' She did so. and it cured the boil in a short time." Quickest healer of Burns, Sca'ds, Cuts, Corns, Bruises, Sprains, Swellings. Best File cure on earth. Try it. Only 2 >c at M L Allen's. j Accounls 2-l-r.scd. A young I'hihidolpH n who had decided ili;it !::> somewhat extravagant j s) ?mse ou; lit to keep an account ol" her expenditures came to in r one (lav villi a i!":*t account book. prettily hound. "Now, Suzanne." said ho. "1 want : you to pat down on tin's side of tin hook the money I siive vou for the household ex|cnses and on th.e otlier a statement of how ii pies. 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