University of South Carolina Libraries
HS AN ACRC Helen X. Ri< There* a smell of cooking all Hurrah for the pudding am Arranged on the ?ltelve* win Need meddle with Grandii V 1 ?i I Acrn ?kvni in ? ?i Sly ftret croM the thre?ho ~ "" ^ Grape*. applet and nut*??ucl 1 think that with me you'l Very much of the pletisure Tl la to *mdl and to ta#te anc Nor can you deny that on T Grandmother holds court in i flcM THt <S0VtRN0K | f? PoB&Y by i.ulu uniun. w IT was the slack time at the post- |b offlce? the hour Just l>efore noon. Ql when the morning mail had all nt been distributed, and the clerks were chatting sociably or reading the, morning paper*. The girt at the general delivery "window was startled by the sadden in- : quiry: "Say. is they anything for the Jennersr Looking throtigh the window s V saw a boy, with big. brown eyes, just on a level with the shelf oatslde. 8be knew there was no such name Id the package of letters; but to humor the little fellow, she looked carefully through them, and answered kindly: "Not yet; perhaps it will come tomorrow." She was haunted by the mournful look that came into his eyes every time she shook her head, and tried to eonaole him one day by saying: "Your letter will surely come soon; you have been expecting It so long." "Letter." be said scornfully, "I never Mid I w&nted a letter; I want a Knn/flA T man# I* vuuuiv, aim a w aui n vuvu? i*?w. I*re been 'spectlng it a long time, and ?and?I'm just tired of you shaking year bead. I am." The defiant little voice ended with something like a Mb. The girl at the postofflce window ease through the door Into tbe outer office. and taking Bobby's band asked * kindly: "Had yon written to someone to tend yon something?" Seeing the look of sympathy on her Dace. te told ber all about it. "You j ee. It's this way: Mamma used to let fee write to 8anta Onus and tell bini what I wanted at Christmas time, and I always got something?that wa* when I was a little feller" (straightenin g back bla shoulders). "My teacher j has been telling about tbe man tbat rons Thanksgiving, and she fead a letter be had lu tbe papers telling tbe people when to tlia?ksgire and all that, and I asked ber was be a real\mreenough man or If he was Just a put-up Job like Santa Claus. She just laughed and laughed, and then she showed me hia picture in the paper, and be was iwi a man 'tbout no white beard like i I Santa's. and sbe sakl they called him Guv-uor. He looked so kind and good out of hia eyea, I just thought maybe be would help us a little if be knew bow hard up we was this full. Mamma can't wash aa much as sbe used to. ftDd I can't help much yet; so 1 wrote ft letter to the Gur-nor one day wbeu mamma had gone to the Judge's to belp clean bouse. 1 made up my en Hup out of paper like I wrote my wl letter on; the teacher in the first room ca bowed me bow. but It didn't stick good, and I'm afraid it lost my letter oat and the Gur-nor didn't get it. and an Ifa only one more week till Thanksfiring." to] Hia roice trembled, and the girl ru turned her bead for a moment to gire Wj him a chance to choke back the tears. 111 "Where did you mail your letter?" en abe asked. tb He pointed to a tiny crack under the th belt of tbe general delivery window. "Right here," he said. "1 couldn't ufl ? ??-???? to 1BAY, IS THXT AXTTBIM* FOR TBE J*JS3?EBS?" % hj( ach tbe bole* whore tbe big folks th it their letter*." Tbe girl told blm to run nlong bom<? fa id trj to be patient, and may lie tbe w uwer would come yet before Tbank*- if log. She hastened back to her window. fu id pulling out tbe stamp drawer |k >?i<-hp<l in behind it and found a mi rumpled paper. It was Bobby's let- h< Her to the Guv'nor. ? ill It dropped oat of tbe envelope into k< lap. and Hbe read tbe pitiful ap- r.i gpeal; then taking a sbeet of paper sbe irrote: tv "Dear Sir: Tbls Important letter lias p Men mislaid in oar office, but I bope K ia not too late for you to answer it In Kfore Thanksgiving. tl "Yours very truly. C< The Qua at tile Ornce Window." g< ? . :hards? over the house; 1 pie#, ere not-even a mouse aaV mippliex! ^Hlfc door, id to Mre ^WEy !i a tempting display? _ ~ ] agree, >ia:ik>triving brings I to nee; hanksgiving Day i right royal way. She folded this Inside Bobby's letter, otened the corners of the brown en'lope with mucilage, addressed it operly. and taking a stamp from her vn stamp l>ook put it on the corner. ie took out her purse and counted r scanty savings; then she put a uie in the stamp drawer and put a tecial delivery stamp on the brown ivelope. too. The Governor's mall was brought to m at brerJcfast time. In the package as the queer brown envelope, and e Governor opened It first out of irlosity. He read it through once nl smiled. He read it aunin and r\ ? " K esbpSESw * a \ A ff.v. feP^CTfl||cJ| ^ v>; . x *:r y !. iJS a ilsthd softly: then the children i lied for an explanation, aud be read t aloud. I 'Dear (iuv-nor: I aui a boy. but I 1 n not afrade of you. for you look : <?d out of yore eye?. The teacber I Id me about you belli* the man tbnt n Thauksgivlu' aud 1 tho't you w'u'd I ant all yore pe'ple to bave a good < ne and we ain't got enny turkey or ny thing like the teacber read about 1 e pe'ple bav'n. I don't ker uiucb fer I em thing* if you an't got enuff to go i mud. but mamma needs a new dregs i r~? 1.--1 .M,l ? ..k?n ? i?ri uau, uuu a puuii, uur au i ?(ui fuuj c keep her warm when we carry the one home: and I an't got no overrate < mitt'nn; but if you an't got enuy my ie it's all rite. I am just past eight, i it I am tolabul big to my age. 1 < u'dn't ask for so much, but I an't t it no papa like the other boys, and I <] o't you w'u'd see that we w'u'd need ( ore help than boys that's got papas. } nn my mumuiii omi nuj i an i roi i pai? ami she <?ried and sed be wont ray wbeu 1 was a naby and an't got ck. I'ie'se send tlu-se things if you t plenty. m> we cau thanksgive, too. Yore fr'eud. Bonnv Jenner. *P. S.?I like candy, but 1 don't ever ve enuy." kVi.cn the (Jovernor had finished riding the letter be was besieged by e children: "You will, won't you. jia? You won't disapimint the little llow: just think, be knew you were good just from seeing your picture, i.v. let us get the things; we can tit i* overcoat and mittens on our Kobliy. '? just |Kist eight and big for ids age; id oil. pupa, won't you let us send . in*' things he didn't ask for?" j j riio i-bildrcn were nil talking at onco. "Hohl on." said the (Jovi-rnor. "I j iven't said that I would scud the ( lugs that be did ask for .vet." His owu Uoldty looked up Into bis | ee ami said gravely: "I think you on't bt? >:ood like your picture looks you don't." This speech settled the question, and > urtiu.n.r?..rj.l.l U'lnlfnul u'.i. ?... itjtiil chairman of the purchasing j xnmittee It.v the Governor, who gave ?r a bill tbat sent tbcui all (lying at , tu. until be fled down the steps to | -ep from tielng smothered by tbelr , ipturous embraces. At the end of the week tbo commite agreed that they had never bad so , w>d a time lu their lives before. The Governor came home with au . upertaiit air ooe night, mid calling ie children around him, told them the kmI news that Bobby's father was >ing boiuv for Tbauksglvlng. I ic.'MtUtGJXXi. ?. -v.. i 4UW..-K J!u "Golnpr home; whore hns he been?* were tlw eager (juentionn. nod the (iov? ernor answered sadly: "Jenner made f a mistake one time. and thty rent him s "WHEN THE OOVEBNOB HAD riXI8HED READING THE LETTER HE WAS BESIIOED BT THE CHILDREN." away from home for a long time, to make him sorry for it." "Oh. jMipa, has he been in prison?" asked Winifred in an awed tone. The Governor nodded: then he toid them how very sorry Jenner had lweu fur the wrong he had done, and they were letting him out before his sentence was out. on account of his good behavior. He had been to see Jenner and had shown Bobby's letter to him. and Jenner had cried like a baby over it. When the children showed the Go*' crnor the huge bundle they had ready i r^). :J$ - / I g to Rend. l?e wild it would never jro j hrough the moll. Their faces clouded. ^ 'or they hnd talked so much of Bobby'* t <ari>rise. when Ik* asked for his wail. , ind the girl at tbe window gave blm ^ be bundle. c All at once quick-witted Winifred j ibougbt of a plan to overcome tbe ^ llfflculty. f "We will bave Bobby's father come < liere for tbe bundle when be starts , iiome; be can go to tbe postotlice and t ivait for Bobby and carry tbe bundle c loiue, aud won't Bobby's mamma be c turprlsed?" ( This plan met tbe approval of tbe { .committee and it was settled. , In the meantime. Bobby trudged to t the office every day. moruing and \ venlng. and asked: "Ain't they anyhing for Jenner* yet?" His tone grew liscouraged. and tbe girl at the window 'ountl It hard work to comfort blm. , the felt a bitter resentment toward , be Governor, who had pnld no heed t o the little fellow's appeal. I Thanksgiving morning came. Jen- j ler took the early train for home, and t vhen he reached the town lie went t itrnight to the postotlice. Going to ( he general delivery window, he asked } he girl If she whs tbe person who had < orwarded a letter to the Governor, j <he nnswcml "Yes." in a surprised our: then lie allowed hvr the bundle irul told her tliat he was Hubby's 'at her. The girl was delighted with the good lews, and asked JeliUer to wait inside he otliee. ] Hobby was later than usual: ho came < ivith a laugiuu step and a sad little 'ace. .Icnncr caught liis hreatli hard is he saw his bahy. grown so large. Hobby did not ask tit- usual question. ( nit htoking up into the girl's kind face, ( aid: "I guess it ain't no use to ask; , it's too late now. and I guess they ain't | I'Ver going to be anything for the leuners." ] The girl came out of the office. followed by JeniKT wlili the bundle. She showed Hobby the address in big ; letters and said: "You see the (jovcrnor ; ?ent you such a Mg Thanksgiving. he ] " c?.?wl n 1112111 to enrrv it homo ! ??* IU "XMM - Tor you. Will yon tdiow him the way?" She laughed through her tears at the boy'* glad Hurprlw. HuMty rfachwl up anil took the big [linn's hand confidingly: not knowing 1 ivho it wan. In* led the way home, and | [here wax Kind Thanksgiving for "The jMiner*."?IjkIIw' World. Bread Ik the HlnfT of life, hut sous people prefer the roll of fame. \ CURIOUS FACTS* Dr. James B. Thornton, of Boston, rho has the finest collection of small irms owned by a private individual d the United States, has Just secured i knife ftdly 3000 year* old from the Qining lauds of the Central West. A German inventor has produced an Instrument to 'assist people to swab ow pills. A small apparatus is placed n the mouth so that the open tube :ocs close to the throat, the end is iressed and the pill is on its travels beore the taker is aware of the fact. A chicken recently batched In Wadtrorth. London, was Well nrovlded for a the way of different members of be tody, notwithstanding, or perhaps f which it soon died. It bad two enks, three eyes, five claws on the left oot and four on the right, and three ets of brains. TTlass bouses of a very substantial :1ml can now be built. 8ileslan glass tinkers are turning out glass bricks or all sorts of building purposes, lairaing for tbem such advantages as arlety of shape, free transmission of Ight, strength, cheapness and general daptability. When complete diffusion f light is needed, as In factories, con* ervatories. courtyards, etc., they arc pecially suitable. A curious and interesting peach has arned up among the collections of ruit trees growing on the grounds of be Massachusetts Agricultural Col* ?ge at Amherst. This is the fruit uown to pomological experts as the 'een-to peach. The fruit is about the ize of a Tangerine orange, but much lore oblate. In fact. It is almost as at as the proverbial pancake. The 'een-to peach comes to this country rom Southern China. One of the most curious lawsuits on ecord Is reported from San Diego. Cal. 'he plaintiff is a Yuma Indian named kgita His. and the defendant Is one J. I Spear, an Indian agent. He asserts hat while held a prisoner by 8pear. bo latter cut his hair off. thereby deriving him of his proper standing in be Yuma tribe, of which he was a hlef. because the Yuma Indians, it eems, set great store by their hair, le wants $5000 damages. A company of half a hundred PhilA* elphians have had the novel expertInnohnnn mt tho Tnn of brick smokestack 275 feet high. The mokostnck, which Is the largest of Its ;lnd Id the United States, has be?n ullt for the Southern Electric Light nd Power Company, at Christian treet and the 8chnylkllL The inside iameter of the stack at the top Is Ighteen feet. About five feet below be rim a platform was built, and on Ills a Ion? table laden with good things o eat wns placed. There was chicken -higher than It ever flew before?in lie delectable form of salad, and there rere sandwiches which had gone up"in n unprecedented way, and coffee, aud lives, and such things. To Europe by Lud, In flnrper's, Harry de WIndt tells nterestjngly of his expedition from *aris to New York by land. The only llfflculty which he found insurmountible was the actual crossing of Bering Itralt on the Ice. Of this Mr. dc vinat wmes: "The wintry aspect of nntnre around Jering Strait seemed to predict a ate summer, and it looked at if uontba must elapse before the re enue-cutter courteously placed at our llsposal by tbe United States Govern* aent could come to our rescue. My irlginal idea was to try and cross iver the frozen strait at One Prince if Wales (a feat never tempted >y a white man), but I tound on arival at East Cape, that the passage s never attempted by tbe Tcbuktcbls, md only very rarely by the Eskimos. During the past decade perhaps a tozen of the latter have started from he American side, but only a third if the number have landed in Siberia, riic distance from shore to shore it iltout forty-five miles, tbe Diomede stands being situated about midway. -i a me siraii is uever i-uuipinciji uuicu, or even In midwinter floes are ever >n the move, which. with broad and ibiftlng 'leads' of open water, render i trip by dog-sled extremely hazardins. My experiences on the-Ave miles >f drifting Ice across wblcb we were ventually compelled to walk In order o land on American soil inspired me vlth no desire to undertake the enire passage between the two conInents." AtchtMB'i PHm XlblMk The wonder of the age Is an Atchl* ton woman who knows everything ibout otber people. Sbe was never cnown to rubber; sbe seldom leaves jer bome. bnt sbe knows what you iai<l for that carpet in your parlor ind if you still owe anything on your itove. She knows* when engagements ire made and why they, are broken; die knows the color of the wedding Iress iK'fore the bride-to-be has told lior mother. Slic knows It all, ami very one who knows her is in mortal error that she tells more than she knows. People are first amused at ivhat she knows. and then alarmed, tier uieans of attaining this wide unlerstandiug of the town's secrets are last comprehension, and almost marrelous.?Atchison Globe. "There U m Happy Land." Money flowing in all directions, everybody is hnppy and paying off Ills Jebts. onr merchants are all smiles nnd their clerks polite as a Chester3*1(1: the married ladies look ten year# younger; the old men are out of the irrnuts: the little kids as frisky as a lay; the cooks prepare meals on time without a frown, and you borrow money without any explanation of four financial standing.?Atlanta Constitution. Ilorac* Orwl?x nod Coffee. On out* occasion, wlien Dr. Cuylcx wax pastor of a church in Trenton. N. J., ho had as guest at table Horace Greeley, wlio hnd come over to make p speech at a political convention. Id the course of the meal Mrs. Cuylei nuked the editor If lie would take coffee. His droll reply was: "I hope to flrink coffee, madam, in heaven, hut ] cannot stand it in this world." THOUSANDS OF 1 November Colds Should Not Be Allowed to Develop Into Chronic vauunu Pe-ru-na Cures a Cold Promptly and Permanently. am glad to recommend Perana, u it baa done eo maeb for me. I bad bees a great aufferer from catarrhal colda until I tu urged to try Perm>a, and I am happy to aay that it baa entirely cured me. I ball never be witboot it, and moet cheerfully recommend it to other* who are afflicted a* I have been."?Katherine Danter. 23813th 8t., Milwaukee, Wia. Moat people think tbe auccesa of Perana dependa upon the nae of sdvertisementa. Undoubtedly tbe advertisements help aome. Bat by far tbe greatest number of people who bear of Perana bare their at* tention called to it by a friend. Some one gets cured of chronic catarrh bv 'erona. After be ia certain of hia care he is rare to recommend it to bit friend*. Friend recommends it to friend and tbe news spreads from tongoe to tongoe. All the advertisements in the world could not make Rerun* at popular esltls. Parana euro*. That is the roaoon pooplo like (t Per una euret a very stubborn disease. That Is %thy mryoM rmcommvend* it. Peruna eurtM chronic c+tarrh after all other remedies lail, which explain! why neighbor England'* High Frtea of UtIbc, Consular prices from England are to the effect that the increased cost of living there keeps parallel with the prononnced advance in food prices in the United States. A Lots Affair. Take some Imagination, mix with a little passion, bottle it up?and you have a love affair.?New York Press. TIm important Thing. In the social swim life preservers are not so Important as reputation preservers.?New York Press. The Flag en the Mew Stamp*. A Washington correspondent writes: For the first time since 18t? the Post* office Department, with the issuance of tho new series of stamps now in preparation, will make use of the American flag In one of its designs. This will be a part of the two-cent stamp, which, by the way. will bear little resemblance to the one now in use. The portrait of Washington, which has long appeared on the popular stamp, -will be succeeded by a photograph taken from Gilbert 8tuart's famous painting. The familiar bust of Washington, so long known to the stamp-using public, was drawn from Houdon's profile cast. From Cook'* Letter a m Friend. "Our Lady Amabel she've took lessons, so as to help us In the cooking. One day she comes to make an apple pie. I'd made the paste ready for 'er to roll, and buttered the dish, and Jane had peeled the apples, and John and Robert stood over 'er with the things, and 'Liza bad 'ot water for 'er to wash 'er bands in when she'd done. So it was a nice 'help,' you may be sure. Hows'ever. she did it, and I baked it, and upstairs they all said as tbere'd never bin known sich a pie? tho' it was as sour as warjuice, for lor' if she hadn't forgot to put in the sbuRgar!"?Food 0?d Cookery. Beware of Ointment* For Catarrh That Contala Mereory, u mercury will surely destroy the mom ol smell and completely derange the whole ays. tern when entering it through the mucous surfaces. 8uch articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure to get the genuine. It is taken Internally, and is made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Chenev A Co. Testimonials free. STHold by Druggists; price, 75c. per bottle. Hall's Family Tills are the best. Europe has 33,000 birth* and 24,000 deaths daily. Johnson's Happy Fills are manufactured by the Happy Medicine Co.. Boruugh of Richmond. N. Y. City. They are highly recommended for malaria and chills and (ever*. A combination of chain makers wa* ! formed in Cleveland, Uhio, recently. FITS permanently cured.N'o fits or nerroasnettsafter first day s use of Dr. Kline's Great NenreB- storer. Atrial bottle and treatlsefree Dr.H. H. Klise, Ltd., 931 Arch tft., Phlla., Pa. Absence makes the heart grow fonder of the people who bore you. Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup for children teettilnft.Koften th? jfum.H, reduces inflammation .ailays pain,cures wind colic. 25.'. a bottle Many a fellow who is blind to his own interests is always looking for trouble. Ptt5au Fadeless Dyes do not stain the hands or spot the kettle, except green and purple. The empty-headed fellow demonstrate* that there is plenty of room at the top. I do not bailer? Piso'a Car* for Consumption ha? an equal for coaghs and oolds?Joan F. boYZB, Trinity Hpringa, Ind., Feb. 15,1900. Procrastination is a word that carries I wait. l,:,mfc-.. WOMEN ^tDYINI Pe-ru-na Caret, That it Why the People Uke It. All the Advertisement In the World Could Not Make Pe-ru-na as Popular as It Is. Miss Margaret Donnelly, 21 Webster Place, Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: "Peruna was recommended to me about a year ago for c. tarrh, with which I bad been troubled nearly all my life, hot which had given me aerious trouble a few month* before 1 took Peruna. In two weeks my head cleared up, I did not have headaches, and in a abort time felt perfectly well."?Margaret Donnelly. ^ ~ A _ i has gained a lifelona friend. v? People who have been cured by rerun* many years agv bare been eager to recommend Peruna to their friends ever since. This ie the way Peruna is advertised. It advertises itself. Its merits are its chief advertisement. Once cured of so distressing and exasperating a malady *s catarrh it becomes the duty of every one to pass it along, to call the attention of those who *rs still victims to a remedy that rarely fills to core. Beware ef Cheep Imitations el Fe* ra-?a?fie Sure That lea tiet Pe-ra-u. There are no substitutes for Peruna. Allow no one to persmsde yon that there is something just as good. The success of ' Peruna has tempted many people to devise r cheap imitations. Beware of them. Be sure that you get Peruna. Miss Jennie Driscoll, 870 Putnam eve., Brooklvn. N. Y.. writes: 1 "I h'eard ?o much in praiee of Pennia I'm)* Naia'i Wuto Bwlwt. A little more than 9,000,000 piece* of mail turned up at Uncle Sam'* dead letter office last year. Letter* and parcels to tbe number of 50<000 were opened, yielding $48,000 in ca*b and commercial paper of an aggregate face value of $1,399,928. Yet there are some people cruel enough to say that husbands who neglect to mail their wives' letters are the most absent-minded people on earth. It -will be consoling to the maligned to know there are others.?Omaha Bee. Davj Crnck?tt'? One of tbe most Interesting relics on exhibition In tbe office of Secretary of State Crockett Is tbe rifle which was presented by admiring friends to bis great-grnndfnther, tbe immortal Davy Crockett, bero of tbe Alamo, and antbor of tbe equally Immortal pbrase, "Be sure yon are right, and then go ahead." This gun was carried by tbe grandson of tbe first owner, the late General "Bob" Crockett, who brought down much game with It, but now It has been retired with honor and full pay to pass the remainder of its days, or centuries, as a relic of one of the greatest characters this country bns ever produced. It is a formidablelooking weapon, originally of the flintlock type, with a 40-calibre bore. The barrel was originally forty-six Incbex long, but some of It has been cut off. and it is now only forty and one-half incues. II was pnnvoini iu ua uu Crockett soon after bis second electlou to Congress in 1820, by some of bis admiring young whig friends of Philadelphia. It cost ?50 and was made especially for blm. Tbe donors raised the money by contributing balf a dollar each to tbe fund. Tbe stock is trimmed in sterling silver, elaborately designed with figures of tbe Goddess of Liberty, a raccoon, a deer's bead and other figures. Along tbe upper part of tbe barrel are tbe letters, set Into tbe barrel In gold, some of which has "worn out: "Presented by tbe Young Men of Philadelphia to tbe Hon. David Crockett, of Tennessee." In similar letters near the muzzle are tbe words. "Go ahead."?Memphis Commercial Appeal Colds " I bad a terrible coia ana couia hardly breathe. I then tried Ayer'a I Cherry Pectoral, and it cave me im- I mediate relief.'' E W. C. Layton, SldaU, PL g How will your couch be tonight? worse, probably. For it's first a cold, then a cough, then bronchitis or pneumonia, and at last consumption. Coughs always tend downward. Stop this downward tendency by taking Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Aatn&+. Owalt yoor doctor. If h* am kto It. thm do u Iw taji. It ho Mb T? M to toko It. tkN ImI tiki it H* kaovs. Um U with hi*. W? trt wlIHnc. ? J. C. AT KS CO.. LovaU, Kim. & HUB? MBBHB Mil Mai ADVERTISING j- I'-^ifcYiTritf^riii - I r "i lim'ril irfT*i : .i/* .iJ*1 u a specific for catarrhal affection* that vthenl found my?If with a bad east of catarrh of the hood and throat Peru na woo the fl rot thing that I -thought of. And my convictions vert not wrong, for in a few weeks after nainf Pe? run* ?y?tematically I wu entirely nd of this aggravating distressing dim w. catarrh/ "If people knew bow efficient Perana was for this trouble ther would not hesitate to try it. I have all the faith in the world in it, and have never known of a case where the person was not earod in a short time."?Jennis DriseoiL 1 If jron do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the nes of Perana write at once to Dr. Hart man, giving a full state* msnt of yoor case and be will be pleased to five too his valuable advice gratis. ?- n?. i>_. .1 azma tv. Aaorcw uv. auuiwi, tiwwm ? aH> H*rtm*u Sanitarium. Columbui. Ohio. Th? wife's Wmj. When a woman la dead snre it lan't a burglar, bat cat, she makes her husband go down stain to see about It so as to be able to brag how brar# he la.?New York Press. VNd Him. If you want to win the gratitude of * cog. iec-a mm; as 10 uitru. uie uum>H difference Is the quality of the foodBaltimore News. No man li an utter failure if he manages to make a living. JKSS /HL $3 & $3iSfi SHOESffi? W. L Dougla* tfiott art tim atom** of ttowort*. W. L. ?mU* maUamiwitimfnmm'tM^ nw Wtlt(BM4 R*W*4 riww>8hwtotfc*lm SxiMatka ?f IMS tlua ur ttiitr MnafNtiRr. : JinnnnBEWAKD Wi* *M * u,?. -* $10,000 *^ | cV*ssvv*riwHflDr-w Bnt Importta eutd Ammlmm JmCNhl M*f? Htamt Coif. Cnamoi fur Calf, Calf, Via MM, OmM Colt, Hat Katgart* Fut Cohor ZyMi med. ClWtfrf ( Th<jroul n? yDOUQLAir W- L DOWLAS, BROCKTON. MAW. RlftWS I I will be sixty-one /Mir* old next April, and ?11 my life had been a great sufferer from dyapepsia and indigeation. Up to three years ago I was aurc that notning would help me, aa I Had tried almoat every known remedy, rione E'ving me much relief. One day my milv physician told me to try Ripana Tabules, aa he bad found them of great benefit in aeveral obatinate caaea of indigestiou and dyapepaia. I will say candidly that I bad little faith in tbem or in any other medicine when I began taking the Tabule*. Much to my surprute I felt better within a day and waa soon greatly relieved. I kept tak| inp them and continued to improve. I 1611 I1KC 1 uew TCUIUUU, auu mj uci|ubora and friend* saw a great change for the better in my health. Tb? Flv*-C*ot r*ck?t I* ?nna*h tor ?n ordinary ooc*?lon. Tti* family bottU. 6c c?ct*. tuBltlM ? ropply for i p?f Km. ?r. ft ft mn tssii.imi.iUiut.it. ISHTrn?M?n for th* (JnJtad Mtun SUtjt; 1 1*1 Bulidluc. Buffalo. ^ s? haw VAViri'i ir.? MU V- in Buffalo at to itatu on tb? dollar Brick Factory isaaaifi rcihSTt ?s?g ss&tiiHappyl SSttSS* P4john?or?? i' iiii 'iifcsr z&t ' ' - ' ' i ii j__l_m1.llu^m^