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| THE HAPPY DAYS. W 8inginaf of the happy days?thar's the wa\ L to sing! C (When the desert feels the freshness and Mi the fullness of the spring; r iWlieu the hills stand clear to heaven, and the bells of Hope shall ring? Sindne of the hannv davs?Oh. that's the way to sing! Singing of the happy days, when all the stars above. In azure fields of glory, are but sentinels of Love! .When the ripnle of the rivers, and the melody of birds Shall only match the meaning of the sweetest human words! Singing of the happy days?and let us sing 'em true? Their symphonies of sunlight, their mysteries of dew! The spring is wrecked by winter?the withered blossoms fall; But Love makes bright the future, and God's above us all! ?Atlanta Constitution. 1 MISS ABBIE'S | I LEGACY. | L^SH5E5H5E5HSH5H5H5HSH522> Cy Hendry passed out tne solid looking envelope with the imprint of a law firm in one corner. "I guess you got a legacy, Miss Abbie,'.' he said genially. "You ain't never had no letters from 'way out West before." Some of the "cracker cabinet," sitting about the stove in the general store section of the postoffice guffawed at the suggestion, but they watched her respectfully as she hurried past them with the precious letter hugged to her breast. It was the first letter from a stranger Miss Abbie had ever received in her life, and she could scarcely wait until she x reached home to open it. By nightfall the news was ail over the village, and the Clarion made allusion to a fortunate townswoman who would presently become a Croesus and probably would present the town with the library Mr. Carnegie had neglected to give. Miss Abbie disclaimed the fortune, explaining to Hendry that it was just something about the Rossdale family that the lawyer wished to know, but the letters grew more frequent. There were long blue envelopes of a color that prevented even speculation as to their contents, and the belief gained ground that Abbie Blair was a 3harp one and that her disclaimers were merely for the purpose of throwing Hio toT onl1o/>+nr riff tho And now a second wonder came Into her hitherto uneventful life, for Dave Grayling stepped up to her after i shurch on Sunday night and drew her arm through his. "We're going the same way, Miss Abbie," he said awkwardly, "let's be going together." Grayling's courtship was brief and masterful. He would listen to no denial and one afternoon Miss Abbie stood up before their few friends and the gray-haired minister spoke the few words that made her Mrs. Grayling. That night they left on the honeymoon trip to town, and a week later Grayling was back in his fields ;y' and Miss Abbie was moving about the Srayllng home with a flushed and happy face, making it over from its bachelor disorder to the spick-spanness of her own ideals. She went to the door as the wagon drove into the yard, and Dave climbed ^ down from the seat and lumbered up to the porch to hand her a letter. "From ' that lawyer friend o' yours," he explained with a kiss. "I s'pose I ought to be jealous; my wife gettin' letters from a strange man; but I ain't." He followed the horses to the barn while Abbie went into the house to read her letter. It was the first time she and Dave had directly spoken of the lawyer correspondent, and more than once she had asked herself if it was not possible that his belief in the report might not have been responsible for his proposal. When Dave came in presently he found his wife sitting in the rocking shair and clutching a slip of blue paper in her nervous hands. "Got a check from your legacy?" he demanded with rough good humor. ' "I wish I had a legacy like yours." "It's not a legacy, Dave," she said wistfully. "It's a wedding present. Did you really believe that I had come into some money? Was that why? why??" "I don't suppose that you want me to believe that you've been corresponding with a lawyer chap all those months about anything else," he asked, still in good humor. "Let's hear all about it, Abbie. I haven't bothered you before, but?well, I can fr&t Pnhh'c TU'ontv fiproe vorv ono'.n if I buy right away." The tears sprang unbidden to Abbie's eyes, but they did not flow. "I told everybody the truth," she . said simply, "Mr. Benson is the historian of the Rossdale family. Somehow he found out that I had Grandmother Rossdale's family tree and wrote me about it. He used to send me reports of the other branches and I'd look them up for him. When I was married I wrote him, so be could get that down in the book, and he's sent me a check for $25 for a wedding present. That's all." "And those big bunches of papers were only about the dead Rossdales?" asked Dave, with an uneasy laugh. "I guess dead Rossdales won't buy no twenty-acre lots." He rose and stumped heavily out of the room to hide his disappointment, leaving Abbie staring dry-eyed before her. The tragedy she had feared had come. Abbie was oddly quiet at supper time. She eyed him wistfully as she set out her best preserves and watched the plate of biscuit to see that there were always warm ones at hand. She flushed with pleasure as Dave pushed back his chair and declared the meal to have been a supper well worth the eating . "Dave," Abbie's voice was low and pained and she fingered the tablecloth nervously. "I've been thinking about this afternoon." "I've been trying to forget it," he said with a laugh that was not mirthful. "Sometimes they put people in ji who get money, under false pi r tenses," she went on bravely. "I w thinking that if we were to see lawyer perhaps we could get a c [ vorce. It's worse getting a husbai under false pretenses." Her face flushed scarlet as s made the suggestion. She did n ( iook up, out uave Knew mai i. kindly brown eyes must be moist ai troubled. The hair was still soft brown and the thin cheeks were u wrinkled. Miss Abbie had bei deemed an old maid at thirty-five. His glance traveled from the bow< i head to the well-set table and tl tidy room, and then roughly ] pushed back his chair and we around the table. "Abbie," he said, as he knelt b side her and drew her within tl circle of his strong arms, "I d marry you because I wanted th twenty-acre lot, and I thought I cou get it with your legacy. But I don care about the legacy now; I'm gl? you didn't get one. I got more th< I deserved. I was marrying a coup of thousand dollars and instead that I got the best little woman the whole United States?and she worth more to me than a who Stateful of twenty-acre lots."?Ne Haven Register. CARSON CITY'S HIRED GIRL. She is Apt to Be a Squaw and at Fir to Startle the Eastern Woman. Carson City, the capital of Nevad is probably the only city iD the com try where the hired girl is a squa\ To the Carson City housewife evei Indian man is Jira and every India woman is Sally. Neither Jim nor Sa ly can ever be depended on to wor regularly, but as other help is scan and high priced the occasional se: vices which they deign to render ai always welcome. When Sally wants to work she a ways opens the kitchen door wiihoi the formality of a knock and say "Mahaylie (woman), you want wor done?" Or simply, "Me heap hogi di," which means that she is hungi and wants to work for meal. An Eastern woman is apt to I frightened the first time this happei or the first time she looks up and see a buck's swarthy face pressed agains the outside of the window, but st soon learns that Jim and Sally ai quite tame. Sometimes Sally comes shivering 1 ,the door in winter with a baby unde her blanket. She is "heap cold" an wants to toast herself and the quee little morsel of humanity on her bac at the kitchen fire. Sometimes Sail will bring an armful of baskets to se at the door and then the Eastern w< man rejoices exceedingly, for si knows that she can pick up for a fe cents baskets that "she would ha^ to pay dollars for in the stores. The housewife likes to get a Piut Sally to work for her if possible, fc she is cleaner, more industrious an more adaptable than the Shoshone c Washoe Sallies. The remnants c these three tribes have their hom? up in the high hills above Carsoi where no one else wants the lan< They come down to the city ever day, but they never stay there ove night. The Eastern woman in Carson ne1 er fails to looks from her window i the sunset and watch them makin their way along the trail, Indian fill In and out winds the long line, acroi the face of the darkening mountaii always ascending, the last sunbeair flashing on their red blankets. Eac Jim is invariably with his own Sail; the squaw always carrying the pi poose, but the father sometime bllUU IUC1 lilg CL tilCU LUUUICl . VP Iiiuv the long file to the brush tepees < timberline, where each tribe in il own place, separate from the othf two, cooks its scanty food at its litt. camp fire and goes to sleep amon the moaning pines!.?New York Sui The Kitchenette Girl. "Fat servant girls are getting to t a drug on the market," said the ma behind the desk in the employmei agency. "All things being otherwis equal, a small, slim girls stands much better chance of getting a plat than a big, fat one. Of course, there a reason for this, and a logical on although you would probably nevt guess it. It's the kitchenette. Ti to get a fat girl into one of the mot ern kitchenettes, and you'll find it like packing a shad into a sardir can. It is simply out of the questioi Tn the average housekeeping apar ment the kitchen is small enougl but the kitchenette is about the lim in the economy of space. I am advi ing all the fat girls to either gi 'aces with families who occupy while house or to take some obesil cure."?New York Press. Hard Roads and Horses. Tip has seen many a good horse 2 wrong, and no veterinarian was ab to cure or help. Horse would see: all right as long as he was out in tl pasture loafing, but once he was ha nessed up or saddled and taken oi on hard streets he was all "stove up Now, a horse stands on his toes lil a ballet dancer, for horse's hee never touch the ground, so it strange that, shod with iron shoe they stand stony streets. Mar horses cannot trot hard roads withoi rubber shoes, and many a "stove-u[ horse is about as good as ever wht so shod, for these shoes seem to mal a hard street as pleasant to walk u 110 as a grass plot or a Turkey carpe ?New York Press. A Bookworm. "No one meets such various kini , of people as we do," said a libraria "You see that little old man ov , there? He is going through the e pvclnnoflina nnp vnliinm nf 'A tim . He comes in every day and begi where he left off the day before, i . has read through an entire set and beginning another. Pretty dry rea L ing, some of it, one would say."( New York Sun. Since 1878 there have been 19,1! > cremations in Germany. In t United States in the last year alo there were 34,500. ; : . lie ? 1C* Cheerful Dining] ly Where nourishme.it and health are n" concerned laughter aad good will are vigorous promoters of the digestive functions. The court jester was a ^ valuable piece of dining room furnie ture in olden times, and a good natured and cheerful guest who keeps at up a lively and entertaining conversation at table does more to aid digese* iion than all the nostrums ever inie vented.?Woman's Life, id a' A Short Biography. ? j "This is the life of little me. I am 1. the wife of Beerbohm Tree." Thus Lady Beerbohm Tree when asked to III j write her "life"?surely the shortest , autobiography on record. Lady Tree ? is shortly to appear on the variety l, stage, and patrons of the music halls will then have an opportunity of seee ing one of our very cleverest and w most distinguished actresses; for, beside her histrionic gifts. Lady Tree from an early age developed a taste for classics and mathematics. Her favorite subject was Greek, at which s* she was most learned, and many years ago she took part in a Greek play a before an audience which included sn rtistineruished a classical authority v as the late Mr. Gladstone.?Tit-Bits. y n Success With Dinners. 1- Success in dinner giving is somek i thing like success with flowers. The ;e guests must be grouped as artistically r. with regard to congeniality aB the e flowers are with reference to color and form, and both must have the j. right sort of environment. The room jt must be ?bol, but not too cool, and s the viands must be well chosen, well k 1* oi ^ j Cocoanut Pudding.? 7 | ) blespoonfuls of cocoanut i, | saltspoonful of salt, one 16 ^ s separately, adding yolks IS g 5 S cocoanut and salted crac Js < hour. Make a meringue o o I cup su&ar- Put on Pu te i.- 5 ) to oven to brown. Serv e Q* | hot or cold. 0 cooked and well served. The lights ^ must neither be too dim nor too bright, and the flowers should have *5 but little odor, for, however delicious, the fragrance of flowers grows heavy as the evening wears on. With all this and congeniality, a dinner cannot 5* fail, and in those few hours one can ie get better acquainted with those on w either side than would be possible in e weeks under less favorable circumstances.?New York Tribune. ;e Commercial Irctinct. ^ "It is the fashion nowadays to ^ sneer at .the commercial instinct, and to despise it as something common and vulgar; but in reality it is noth!?' ing of tLx sort. The essence of vul,' garitv is the concealment of vulgarity. y The common man who knows that he is common ceases to he common by this knowledge; by realizing t.hat he 7" is not a gentleman he almost becomes 1 one. The really vulgar people are the s people who are forever pretending that they are not vulgar; the truly ,s ill-bred arc those who are constantly 3' oarading their gentility. There is nothing that is vulgar in itself; it only becomes vulgar when It pretends to be something else. Therefore the commercial instinct is never a comiS . mon instinct, except when it sets itIs self up as not being commercial at lt all."?Ellen Thorn3rcroft Fowler, in ts Home Notes. ;r 'e No Shame. g in Turkey there is no shame ati tached to slavery. Can the same be said of our domestic service? Should a servant marry a rich man here and ,e be raised into the ornamental class would she not find it hard to live ] down her former state? In Turkey >e the mother of Sultan Abdul was a a slave, as is the wife of the Khedive ;e of Egypt, and no disgrace attaches 3 to the fact. It is this which primarily e' differentiates Turkish slavery from ;ir what we are accustomed to associate y with >the word?this and the fact that the slaves do not come from an ins ferior and servile race, but from 16 among themselves. There is no castu J' l in Turkey. All persons below the J Sultan are equal before Allah. Every j man and woman has a chance to rise, 1 J according to his. personality?his ln~ , telligence, charm or beauty.?Metroi nolitan Macazine. a " ;y Dressmakers Haunt Picture Galleries. Parisian dressmakers are seeking inspiration for evening modes in the rQ picture galleries. There is always je more latitude allowed in the fashlonm ing of dresses that are to be worn by night than in the tailor made, or r_ even the elegant afternoon gown; and lt it is safe to prophesy that for even.. ing the period gown will have a successful vogue. The terms are almost ls synonymous, for it is the paintings of the Louis XV. aud XVI. period s that are guiding the modistes. JV! This means the coming of the pointed, tight fitting corsage, the tucks, and the draped skirt. ,n The vieux rose tints which have ce had such a long inning are to be alp_ lowed to have a rest, perhaps only a brief one. A pale amber shade, curiously becoming to both fair and dark haired women, is one of the newest colors for evening. Incidentally it is a perfect background to the 3s mass of gleaming jet which trims so n. many of the smartest gowns. The <?r delicate mignonette green of the sun n- mer is another shade which shows tip e. well under the electric light. Blue ns Is a color that has often been es*e chewed in the past because of the difis ficulty of choosing a shade which d- looks well under artificial light. ? There are several blues notably the pastel tones. Serves and Nattier, which can be worn with safety in .the 2i evening. White is, of course, always worn, ue and the indispensable black evening gown is, if anytning, more delegable L * ? ^ ? - I than ever this season owing to the j extraordinary popularity of jet and the new favor extended to Ohantilly. The run on black Chantilly has been so great that the French makers are having positively to refuse to take any more orders for the present for ;his beautiful lace. Many handsome evening frocks are being made of rich black velvet with dull silver embroideries. The transparent black jet studded net evening frock also has its place in the spring fashions, wLth trimmings and relieving notes of color on the corsage and the waist belt. Often the jet appears only in fine embroideries or paillettes on a tunic or net, which falls over a soft clinging robe of mousseline de soie or satin charmeuse.?Philadelphia Ledger. Plan For Baby Exchange. More than passing consideration is being given a recent suggestion looking to the establishment of a regular "baby exchange," that would supply babies to and receive them from clients in accordance with their several needs. At present the foundling hospitals and kindred institutions are the principal resort of those who wish to adopt children, and for those who have strong views on heredity these poor waifs are always under a certain suspicion; but a wealthy fJew York woman who advertised privately the other day offering a child all comforts and a real home was-surprised at the number of replies she got from honest and hard working fathers and mothers who felt they had too many children to do full justice to all in I thair n nhrin m'n v Thft "babv ex- I "-o?o- ? One pint of milk, two eggs, two ta, one-half cup cracker Bcrumbs, one teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat eggs to the milk and then mixing with ker crumbs; flavor and bake a half of the whites of two egg3 and one dding after it is baked and return It e with cream. This is good either change," as proposed at present, would be established in some healthy country district not too far from town and conducted by a regular staff of physicians, nurses and matrons. Due scrutiny would be made as to the character and motives of the parents to guard against the abuse of the institution by the neglectful or improvident; but it is believed by the group j of women who are now working out the details of the scheme that 3uch an institution might prove of the utmost general advantage, relieving the children from poverty and suffering and simplifying the problem for those who wish to adopt a baby. ? New York Press. Diamonds and pearls are the ruling jewels for great occasions. Attractivo skirts and waists are joined in 3emi-prlncess stylo. Broadcloth, in pale shades, Is highly popular for eveQing gowns. Skirts of zibeline, in stripes and plaida, are worn with plain coats. Collars and lappels are wide and I long on nearly alii coats and jackets. Coats distinctively separate and for dressy wear are long and rather full. Gold and silver cloth is used as lining to the sheer net yoke and sleeves. For evening wear satins of more or less lustre are holding on tenaciously. Fur trimming has appeared on some of tho most notable opera gowns. Jersey top petticoats are still popular and promise to increase in demand. White gilt buckles are still in evidence; some fancy footwear has buckles matching the color of the gown. The tucked sleeve is smaller than the one which is plain and either may be made in the full or shorter length. } White jet plays a leading part in decorating young girls' dance frocks, and it also decorates white and black gowns. Instead of satin for brides, this year will witness the dawning star I of all dull finish crfcpe surface ma terial. For dressing sacques flanneli and albatross are very appropriate as well as cotton crepe and other wash materials. Dutch collars wili be worn in the house because of their comfort, but for modish street wear they will be less seen. The beautiful willow plumes are coming into their own again after tho rage for fruit trimmings on late season hats. There is no trimming on a waist which gives it so much individuality as a touch of hand embroidery work or braiding. Pekin raessaline is the name given to a particularly alluring silk striped chiffon cloth that is quite a favorite for blouses. Among the new umbrellas are those with palmetto handles. The handles are handsomely carved and highly polished. Very pretty with coats and colored blouses is the deep cuff of linen with embroidery buttonholed scallops and pleated lace frill. Sumptuous wraps for the afternoon as well as for the evening are made with wide, loose sleeves, and many have the burnous drapery. Beads and braid combine to make some of the new and unusual cabochons on hats and gowns. They are to be had in a variety of colors. GIRLS' INCREASING HEIGHT. Comparison of Dress Measurement.' To-day and Fifty Years Ago. A search of the garret for old fash loned clothes "to dress us in" doe; not yield so much as it once did. Be hold, when great-grandmother'i gowns come to light they are all to< email for the young generation. I is not a mere matter of stays anc busks, for if it were, a tightene( corset lacing might be endured fo a single evening. But the girl of to day is hopelessly taller than her fore bear, and there is no remedy for thi skirt, waist and sleeves too short. The increase in the height of Amer lean women has doubtless gone 01 steadily for fifty years, but measure ments havo altered markedly in th last ten years. A skirt of forty-on inches was considered long in 1895 Now skirts of forty-four and forty five inches are made by wholesale Grandmother stood barely five feet ii her shoes, but her daughter measure five feet four inches, and her athleti granddaughter measures from flv< feet seven to five feet eleven in he stockings. The increase in height is not an un mixed good. To begin with, Ion: clothes cost more than short ones Six inches added to length of skir and bodice make an actual increas in the cost of material. Moreovei tall girls, especially if they are slec der, are not so easily fitted in th cheaper ready made garments. Th large sizes all seem calculated fo stout women. Strangely enough, the averag stature of the men of the coming gee eration has not increased so fast a that of the women, and there ar many men not so tall as the girls c their own age. Such a man fears t rfanno nr walk or even to talk wit a woman to whom he must look u physically, whatever he may prefe in her of moral superiority. It I little short of tragic when a Ion line of tall girls files past a group c short men, each avoiding the othe with blank gaze and the secret r( flection, "How I should look wit him?her!"?Youth's Companion. Settling a Dispute. Richard Le Gallienne, the poe! said at a dinner: "Literary disputes are interestin if properly conducted. Too many c them, however, are suggestive of th Shakespearian dispute in Tin Can. "Professor Bill Billus, of the Ti Can Dancing Academy, delivered lecture in the Lone Hand saloon, an in the course of his argument recite 'The boy stood on the burning deck a gem, he declared, from Shake speare's 'Othello.' "But an interrupter rose an strode forward. " 'I am a Boston gent,' said the ir terrupter, 'and I certify that n Shakespeare never wrote that piece " 'Friend,' said Professor Billui gently, 'I can convince you that h done so.' " 'Convince away,' said the Bos tonian, sceptically. "So Professor Billus led off wit his right foot, and followed up th argument with a brass cuspidor, fal ing. in the subsequent clinch, on toj " 'Who writ the piece?' he slioutec as he pummelled his opponent steac iiy. " 'Shakespoare,' the Bostonian ai swered in smothered tones from b< neath. " 'Are you sure?' asked the profe* sor. " 'Dead sure,' was the reply, 'I see him do it.' "?Washington Star Tlie Telephone Girl. She is more than five feet tall, 8h is ninety-five per cent, unmarried, sh Is neat, she is quick, she is never des nor dumb, she Is invisible when mos effective?she is the girl who must 1 cbnsulted before you can get the tel< phone you want. Though not muc of a mathematician, she deals in nun bers, wholesale and retail?adds S Paul 486 to Mount Vernon 2749 an subtracts Tuxedo 48-M from Madiso 8246 K with lightninglike rapidity. The government experts find th? she can answer 225 calls a minul without shedding a hairpin, but d not mention that she can give yo the same wrong number three time in five minutes and cause attacks c apoplexy and indignation at both enc of the wire. She must be either very patier or very indifferent, this operator i the conversation exchange, for sh deals with many men of many ten pers and many women of man tongues. And if she can manage th: successfully and emerge from a da of conflict with unruffled temper an smiling face, she must be a wonder. There she sits, this lady of the tel< phone, calm, polite, like Patience o a monument smiling at Rage. Froi out the wreck of matter and the rui of worlds comes undisturbed her eve tones, "Number, please!"?Baltimor Sun. Too Wise For That. ''Rupert Guinness was defeated fc Parliament," said a magazine edito "Guinness I know woll. He is great admirer of our American boc beer. He imports a keg of bock bee ?very spring. "n?iTino?;s th? famous stout m< ker, told me a bock beer story las month. "He said that about this time las year he heard that an America friend, being ill, had attempted su cide. So he wired to America to as if this was true. His friend wire back: " 'Suicide story false. Wouldn be such a fool as to kill myself b< fore the bock beer season.' "?Wast ington Star. 1 Ho Ksraopd. The One?"What was the resuTt'c Miss De Sweet's suit for breach c promise?" The Other?"The roung man gc off on the plea of temporary insar ity." The One?"IIow did that happen? The Other?"His letters to he were read to the jury."?Cliicag News. ? With the Funnyi ; ZMk f"J&A Reciprocity. She sewed a button on my coat, For I was far from mother. 1 " Tis such a thing," she said to me, :- "As I'd do for my brother." 0 She looked so pretty sitting there, I quickly stooped and kissed her. " 'Tis such a thing," I said to her, "As I'd do to my sister!" , ?Smart Set. B 1 On the Rialto. s c "Society drama isn't half bad." 5 "Fat parts for all the characters?" r "Sure. Even the butler has seven epigrams."?Louisville Courier-Journal. g j Rather Harsh, t "A female Judas, I call her." e "How now, girl?" , "Pretends to like me, yet always i- *.tries to kiss my powder off."?Pittse burg Post. e r Of the First Water. "What did Cholly give you in th? e way of a wedding present?" t- "A tiara set with perfectly matched s pork chops." ? Louisville Couriere Journal. if o Her Gness. k Hubby ? "There's another chap P committed suicide because his home 'r was unhappy." 8 j Wifie?"I daresay it will be hap? pier now."?Illustrated Bits. r Now-a-Days. ; .0 , "I've simply got to, reduce some' how, May. I've gained another ' pound!" j "Don't you think it might be the buttons on your gown, dear?"?New York Telegram. g Motor Gossip. [. "I think pedestrians ought to carry }> horns." , l( "And be equipped witn shock ao[. sorbers, eh?" ? Louisville CouiierJournal. 1 j. Her Reason. He?"If you dislike me, why did 3- you permit me to kiss you last night?" She?"I felt that a really ought to u make one Lonten sacrifice."?Boston, Transcript. Wouldn't Leave Source of Supply. "Would you like to make a trip in e a balloon?" ? "That depends upon how much | beer you could take with you."?Meggendorfer Blaetter. The Gentle Reminder. h . j. Bride?"Here you are at last. 1 t thought you were never coming." (j Bridegroom?"There was no dann ger of my forgetting it. I tied a knot in my handkerchief."?Pele Mele. it e His Occupation, o "He had a good business, but he u lost it." >s "Did he drink?" >f "No; but he was too busy Deing a Is prominent citizen to attend to anything else."?Louisville Courier-Jourit ual. n ^ A Trifling Debt. i* Sapphead?'"You saved me from y being killed by that auto. I owe my is lifo to you. How shall I ever repay y you?" d Stouten?"Young man, don't you let trifling debts lijie that worry you." -* ?Life. a ^ Sounds Startling. n '"She began as a chorus girl." 11 "Well?" e "But recently she outstripped some of the leading prima donnas." "Are you referring to her progress or her costumes?"?Louisville Cou>r rier-Journal. r. a Looking Backward, k "I always inherited the hand-me>r downs as a kid." "Got the old things, eh?" i- "Some of 'em. My older brothers st soon outgrew their coats and shoes. but they never seemed to outgrow >t their skates." ? Louisville Couriern Journal. i ' rm:sin<? Headaches. IV | ? d i ' What are you doing to boom your headache remedy?" "t "I'm giving away sheet music, all the popular songs." i- "I see. You are not only advertising the remedy, but creating a demand for it as well." ? Louisville Courier-Journal. A Natural Inference. Judge (in breach of promise suit) ?"When you told your fiancee to go 't to hades, did you not consider that i- equivalent to breaking your engagement?" " Young Lady?"No, Your Honor." >r Judge?"Ah, then you intended to o accompany him there." ? Boston Transcript. | There are no coroners in Ruwla. [ The burials are under the control of the church and the police, and all cemeteries are owned by the church and the municipality. Crematipn is contrary to law. but it has been sugi coctoH frnm official sources. I ? Opponents of the use of concrete for floors in factories contend that the stonelike surface is injurious to I the feet and backs of workmen, and I that dust ground from the concrete finds its way into and injures the maI chine bearings. In point of commercial value, the silver product of the United Statefl* last year was the smallest since 1871. Mint bureau figures give the gold value of the 53,849,000 ounces fine produced in 1909 as $28,010,100, making the price 52.016 cents an ounce. - N. Y.?12 WOMEN (IF MIDDLE ME Maail I xrAta 17 DSnlrham'c MbWU Ljum Ln 1 lunuMiu ? I Vegetable Compound Brookfleld, Mo.?"Two years ago I -was unable to do any kind of work and only weighed 118 Jjounds. My trouble lipijp^ dates back to the jjjl time that women may expect nature to bring on them HT the Change of Lif$. -s; VII got a bottle of ,Cfj7 Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable Compound and it made I -s'< v^S.<z2^i me feel much better, an<* 1 b**6 continv \iff n?l f I'lff ue^ its use. I am if/ 'If very grateful to you # 1 .1 for the good health am now enjoying"?Mrs. Sarah Lousignont, 414 S. Livingston Street, Brookfleld, Mo. The Change of Life Is the most criti cal period of a woman's existence, and neglect of health at this time invites disease and pain. "Women everywhere shonld remember that there is no other remedy known to medicine that will so successfully carry women through this trying period as Lydia E. Pinfchaip's Vegetable Compound, made from native roots and herbs. For 80 years it has been curing women from the worst forms of female ills?inflammation, ulceration, displacements, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, and nervous prostration. If you would like special advice about your case write a confidential letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free, and always helpful. relieved by an application of Sloan's Liniment. This liniment takes the place of massage and is better than sticky plasters. 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