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: "Heart, Throbs i
i and Things" i;
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By M. J. Phillips <>
: V J'
j (Copyright, 1S12, by Associated Literary
Press.)
"What can I do for you, ma'am?"
John Wilkle, editor of the Trenton
Twice-a-Week Tidings, left the typewriter
where he was hammering
out an editorial, and approached the
high counter. John wr.s undoubtedly
homely, with a knobby, angular
frame, and untidy ha r. He wore
I ?iooMt ntirf ? whi e shirt that al
liJJVrI\ OOVW ?
| ways had a smear of printer's ink
, Bomewhere about it.
"You might put roe to work," answered
the visitor w^th a smile, as
she drew off her gloves. I am E. L?.
Kimball."
j "You are? I thought E. L. Kimball
was a man."
E. L. Kimball shook her head.
"Your ad. did not specify; you simply
asked for a typesetting machine
operator. But if I'm not satisfactory?"
"Oh, you are," Johi assured her.
"If you can run the 'hlng, that's all
I care about." Inwardly, however,
be was in a panic.
The prospect of having a pretty
young woman around the place was a
disquieting one. John, despite his
downright manner and bis matter-of,
fact appearance, was very bashful.
E. 1^ Kimball ? he discovered
presently the "E" stood for Edltb?
fitted in perfectly. She not only
turned out an incredible amount of
work on the machine, but picked up
news, and kept a supervisory eye on
the "devil," an ink-spattered' youth,
whose idea of tid>rog was very elementary.
In three months John was
wondering what he ever did without
her.
Ono day he stared out at the street
and faced a startling fact: He whb
in love with Miss Kimball!
It rose liko a mountain peak
above the level plain of his existence,
detached from its drab surroundings.
In no sense was It part of them. He
could not see how it would ever become
a part of them. He waB, he cdn|
didly admitted, an alarmingly homely
, man. Binnsley, the bank clerk, and
Tom Roper, the grocer, who had al
I J
John Turned Deathly Pale.
feady paid Miss Kimball some attention,
were away above his class when
j it came to personal appearnce.
So musing, he attacked his morn'
ing mail. The second envelope which
he slit open contained an appeal
for help from a country youth
whose "girl" had discarded him for
a better-favored rival. The other
young man, said the writer plaintively,
had taken her to the last two
j church "soshuls;" they frequently
went "bugy-rldln'" together, and they
"giggled" when they passed him. He
signed himself "Hartbroke.i," and
wanted to know what he should do
about it.
Smiling grimly, John adjusted a
sheet o: copy pai>er in the typewriter,
and wrote one of those biting, quizzical
paragraphs which was giving
the "Tidings" a reputation throughout
the state.
He reflected complacently there
would be others "giggling" at "Hartbroken"
and his plight. Then he 6ent
the letter marked, "Don't change,"
and his comment, up the copy-chute
to Miss Kimball.
When the next proof came down
for correction, John blinked behind
his glasses. "Hartbroken's" letter
had been altered as to language,
spelling and punctuation; and the
editor's flippant comment had not
been set. Instead, there were a few
words of kindly, sympathetic advice.
Poor "Hartbroken" was transformed
from a gawk to be laughed at to a
shy youth who suffered.
At the bottom of the proof the operator
had added a sentence of her
own. "He appealed to you for advice;
it won't be right to make him a laughing-stock."
Wilkie rumpled his hair thoughtfully,
corrected the proof, and wrote
"O. K* J. \\\," below Miss Kimball's
note. Then he smiled sheepishly, sent
Scorned All
Aviator Refuses to Go to a Hospital,
and Really There Was No
Necessity for It.
Joe Stevenson, aviator, never will
go to a hospital so long as he has
strength left to leap out of a stretcher,
he said the other day as he jumped
out of one after a serious fall with his
Olpiane in Nassau diiukvaru. ne uibcovered
after he began his flight that
1 his engine was working badly, but his
power stopped and he had to volplane.
! His machine slid down more quickly
I than he expected, so that instead of
clearing a wire fence he crashed
against it.
His biplane was smashed badly and
Stevenson was thrown out on his
head. Dr. Degrassen Held came in an
ambulance from Nassau hospital to
take the unconscious aviator away.
Stevenson revived as the stretcher
was lifted from the ground.
"Where am 1 going?" he asked.
"To tie hospital," replied Doctor
| the proof up the chute, and flapped
I himself three times on the red, bony
wrist.
"Heartbroken" was really responsible
for the "Tidings"" moat popular
column. Miss Kimball evolved It,
mothered it, and kept It alive. Tbe
country youth's letter had evidently
touched a hidden spring in Trenton,
for missives from the lovelorn came
in a steady trickle after that.
kJohn turned them all over to the
operator; he didn't want to continue
slapping his own wrist. She gave tbe
perplexed advice.
Conniving with the foreman, she set
an attractive box head, "Heart-Throbs
and Things." She filled a column
with the letters and her answers, with
paragraphs she clipped and wrote, and
with some of John's snappy editorial
squibs. Launched in the "Tidings," it
made an unmistakable hit. John, who
had been waiting the chance, raised
her salary.
Winter deepened. So did John's
love for Edith Kimball. He longed
to take her in his arms and kiss
away her capable, self-reliant air.
to pet and tease and adore her out
of the status of a valued employe
into that of wife and comrade. Many
times he started upstairs, grimly determined
to take her busy, dimpled
hand off the keyboard and say masterfully,
"Put on your hat; we're going
to be married!"
An Inspiration came to him one
evening as he smoked in his office
after hours. He selected a rh*ap
plain envelope from his stock V ,
samples, put on his hat and hurried
to the office of Bob Sears, a young
lawyer with whom he was friendly.
There he cut the business card off
one of Bob's letterheads and wrote
(fan appeal to the "Heart-Throbs
Editor."
"Dear sir," he wrote, "I am a I
young man of twenty-one and I cm
very much In love with a young lady
who workB In the same place I do.
I am not at all good-looking, and
there are several paving her attention
that are, so I fear she does not
regard me favorably. I feel that I
would make her a good husband, but
am afraid to ask her to marry me, i
as I do not know that she cares any- j
thing for me. What woulu you ad- i
vise me to do?" He signed "Nathan" i
and mailed the missive In the plain,
typewritten envelope in a train
that passed through Trenton at midnight.
When It came back to him a day
later decorated with foreign post- j
marks and addressed to "Heart- j
Throbs," he sent It guiltily up the
chute without opening. Then he j
fidgeted like a schoolgirl until the
long, slim galley proof brought It j
back in type with Edith's comment
attached:
"A true woman does not care for
beauty In a man; don't let lack of
it worry you. I Infer from your letter
you are diffident, and have not
shown that you care for her. Until
you do, she will not cheapen herself
by expressing any preference."
John heaved a long sigh and *
wiped his moist forehead. When
the issue containing: his letter had
been out two days, long enough to
reach the mythical "Nathan," he
wrote another letter, the gist of
which was: "Would you adviBe me
to put my fate to the test? How
shall I ask her?"
They were late that week with
the second issue of the "Tidings,"
and Edith was working evenings to
catch up. It was eight o'clock Thursday
night when the answer raise
down along with other "HeartThrobs"
stuff: "The editor of
"Heart-Throbs' refuses to propose
for you. If you really care for the
young woman, you will muster courage
enough to ask her."
John turned deathly pale; his lank
jaw dropped. Suddenly the air of the ;
office was stifling. He jerked off his
coat and rolled up the sleeves of his
shirt.
In two minutes he had rolled down
his sleeves and put on his coat. He
closed the stove, wiped his wet face
with his handkerchief, and then
noiselessly he opened the rear door
of the office and headed for the stairway.
With his foot on the first step he
shivered and returned, panic-stricken, 1
to the office. He corrected the proof
and sent that up. He rumpled his
hair with both hands, as if trying to
force a decision into his brain. That
cnompH tn he effective for with des- i
perate haste he seized a square of
copy paper and a pencil, scrawled a
single sentence and sent It flying up
the chute. v
He heard Edith leave her machine ;
and go to the chute; the tin carrier
rustled as she took the single sheet
out of It. He wiped his forehead j
again.
There was silence. Then the machine
resumed its song. He slumped
into his chair.
Another proof came down. He
Bwept its length at a single glance.
At the bottom he found what he
sought, in cold, impersonal type, his
sentence and her answer:
"I am coming upstairs to ask you
to marry me."
"Well, 1 don't know how I can prevent
you."
John hurried to the stairs again,
went up four steps at a time, and hurried
the length of the room. Edith's
fingers were flitting busily over the
keyboard. (She still had the line she
was setting at that particular moment;
it's a curiosity.) Her head was
bent to the copy.
He dropped to one knee beside her
low chair and smothered her in his
arms. He kissed her again and again.
"Darling." he cried, "I love you!"
Her arms tightened about his neck.
"I've suspected so for some time?
'Nathan!'" she whispered.
Medical Aid
#. ?.
Reid, "be still and we will fix you up."
"Not on your life. No hospitals for
me."
As he lumped out Doctor Reid
made a thorough examination and j
* * 11?* ? ? ? o o 1 ( cr V> Kniico
I i on nil iniu fiiii'i iui u o.. ......ov .
he was unhurt.?Baltimore News.
?
A Rule for Each Day.
About the sanest philosophy any
woman can have is to aim to mako tho
mo6t of each day as it comes along
and not borrow trouble from the future
or bemoan the regretful past fin
through each day with a determination
to make it Just as useful, helpful
and cheerful as possible. If you live ,
out this belief your life cannot help
but be successful.
?
What the Cold Weather Did.
"Bear me." said Miss Oddways. who
had just come from a long ramble in
the country. "I was sorry to observe
that the cold weather has killed all
j the pivot hedges."
t
GREAT FALLS IN TASMANIA
"Water Power That Will Develop Eleotrlcity
for Use of Manufacturers
on Island.
A big hydro-electric engineering
I scheme now being constructed in the
[ middle of Tasmania will revolutionize
the industrial life of that island. The
area of Tasmania Is a little over 26,000
square miles, and its present population
is 191,000. Situated in the middle
of the Island at an altitude of
3,400 feet is the Great I^ake, a storage
reservoir provided by nature herself.
The area of this sheet of water Is
forty-one of Tasmania's square miles.
The outlet of this lake is the River
J ?
Tasrnanlan Niagara.
Shannon. At this outlet a new company,
which has recently been formed,
ia constructing a weir to regulate the
fow. The water will then he diverted
from the Shannon Into a lagoon, from
which steel pipes will be laid bo as to
create an effective fall of water for
over 1,000 feet vertical.
Nature's disposition In this region
allows of the mechanical connivance
of engineers In this manner both simply
and cheaply. It Is calculated that
In the power house to be erected at
the foot of this fall electricity of the
value of 85,000 horse power can be
generated all the year round, sufficient
to work the developing Industries
of the whole Island.
Hobart (the capital! In the south
and I^aunceton In the north will he
supplied from It, and there will be ample
power to work thb Important mineral
fields of the west coast as well? ;
the copper mines of Mount Lyell, the
tin mines of LIschofT, and the silver
mines of Zeeban.
OCEAN MOVED NEAR CITY
By Means of a Ship Canal Forty
Miles Long Manchester Is Now
Called a Port.
London.?Though It Is eighteen
years ago since the Manchester ship
canal was Inaugurated, few people beyond
the radliiB of Lancashire realize
the Importance of this great Inland
waterway, that carries ocean-going
ships Into the heart of one of our
largest cities.
The ship canal Is a trifle more than
35 miles In length, and has a depth of
2G feet, while It is 300 feet In width,
or as wide a* the Suez, in places tne
canal is 60 feet above sea level, and
It cost considerably more than $75,000.000
to build.
In cities like Hrlstol, Ipswich or
Chathnm, approached as they are by
At the Mouth of the Suez.
tidal waterways, one expects to find
Bhlps, but hnrdly in a city more than
10 miles from the oi>en sea.
The bluest canal In existence Is
that connecting Pekin and Canton In
China, 1,000 miles in length. The Suez
canal is 90 miles long, the Caledonian
CO miles, and in Great Britain and
Ireland the inland waterways total no
fewer than 3,907 miles, more than
3,000 of which are in England.
Burglar Kills Denver Man.
Denver, Colo. ? J. S. Johnson,
president of the Johnson Drug com*
pany. was shot and perhaps fatally
wounded by a masked highwayman,
who first forced him to open the cash
register. The shooting was precipitated
by the entrance of a woman into
the store.
Bolts Kills Blooded Cows.
York, Pa.?A bolt of lightning during
a thunder storm struck a tree under
which three cows had sought shelter
on the farm of Clarence Gilbert,
near Yorkana. killing them instantly.
The animals were thoroughbreds, highly
valued.
Cows and Beer Kegs Adorn Chapel.
Marietta. O.?Nineteen students of
Marietta college were suspended this
week, as the outcome of a prank In
which a cow and a calf were led Into
the chapel. Beer kegs galore and a
beer soaked floor completed the pic
ti re.
End of Reuf Indictments.
San Francisco.?In obedience to the 1
mandate of the California appellate j
court. Judge F. II. Ihine riismissrd 24
indictments remaining against Abe j
Reuf, former political boss of San j
Francisco, now serving 14 years in
San Quentin jienltentary.
Daschund Catches Fish.
New York.?A daschund belonging
to Eugene McCarthy seized his master's
fishing pole, which had been set
et Highland lake and hauled out a hi?
sunflsh.
And (he Lord also helps those who
help others.
If your digestion I* a little o(T color a
course of Garrielil Tea will do you good.
When you are offered anything free
look for the string.
Mr*. Wlnalow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflammation,
allay* pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle.
A truthful fisherman always knows
where to draw ihe line.
DOES TOCB HEAD ACIIE?
Try Hicss- CAPl'DINE. It's liquid?pleasant
to take?effects immediate?good to prevent
Sick Headache* and Nervous Headaches also.
Your money back if not satisfied, ldc., ISc. uuj j
50c. at medicine store*.
Another Matter.
Hewitt?We aim to please.
Jewett?But what do you hit?
TO DRIVE Ol"T MALARIA
AND HI'ILD I P THE SYSTEM
Take the Old Standard OKOVKW TASTELESS
CHILL TONIC. Yon know what you are taking
The form-la 11 plainly prlpted on every bottle,
iAowlng it It tlmply (Julnine and Iron In a taatelesa
form, and the mott etfertual form. For grown
people and children- 50 cent*.
His View.
Hewitt?This place is 1,000 feet |
above the sea level.
Jewett?But the sea isn't on the
level; It always makes me sick.
Important to Mothers
Examino carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a ?<afe and sure remedy for
Infants and children, and ace that it
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
True to His Trust.
"Fnther," asked the beautiful girl,
"did you bring homo that materia?
for my new skirt?"
"Yea."
"Where is It?"
"Let me see. Wait now. Don't be
impatient! I didn't forget it. I'm
sure I've got It in one of my pockets,
somewhere."
Solemn Warning to Parents.
The season for bowel trouble is fast
approaching and you should at once
provide your home with King's Diarrhoea
Cordial. A guaranteed remedy
for Dysentery, Cholera Morbus, Flux,
Cholera Infantum and all kindred diseases.
Numerous testimonials on our
files telling of marvelous cures can
be had by request. Burwell & Dunn
Co., Mfrs., Charlotte, N. C.
Shock for a Brother.
"John," said an eminent physician,
wearily, entering his home after a
hard day's work, "John, If anyone calls
excuse me."
"Yes, suh," agreed John, the old
family darkey.
"Just Bay," explained the doctor,
"that the masseur Is with me."
A little later the doctor's brother
called?called and received the shock
of his life.
"I want to see the doctor at once,"
said he.
"Yuh can't do if, suh," solemnly announced
the old darkey, turning up his
eyes till the whites alone showed.
"Yuh can't do It, suh. The doctor, suh,
am wld de Messiah." ? New York
Evening Sun.
A Question of Names.
Jn some of the country districts of
Ireland It Is not an uncommon thing
to see carts with the owners' namqs
chalked on to save the expanse of
painting. Practical Jokers delight In
rubbing out these signs to annoy the
owners.
A constabulary sergeant one day accosted
a countryman whose name had
been thus wiped out unknown to
him.
"Is this your cart, my good man?"
"UI course u is: wan iuc lJ^ \
you see anything the matter wid It?"
"I observe," said the pompous policeman,
"that your name Is o-blltherated." ;
"Then ye're wrong," quoth the roun-1
tryman, who had never come across
the long word before, "for me name's
O'Flaherty, and I don't care who
knows it."?Youth's Companion.
"
EFFECTIVE.
HIiI
fWr
First Waiter?Did that Arizona
ranchman give you a tip?
Second Waiter?I should say he did!
He told me if I didn't step lively
he'd blow off the top of my head!
SALLOW FACES
Often Caused by Tea and Coffee
Drinking.
How many persons realize that tea J
and coffee so disturb digestion that
they produco a muddy, yellow complexion?
A ten days' trial of Postum has
proven a means, in thousands of cases,
of clearing up a bad complexion.
A Washn. young lady tells her ex
perience:
"All of us?father, mother, sister and
brother?had used tea and coffee for
many years until finally we all had
stomach troubles, more or less.
"We all were sallow and troubled
with pimples, bad breath, disagreeable
taste In the mouth, and all of us simply
so many bundles of nerveB.
"We didn't realize that tea and cof
fee caused the trouble until one day
we "an out of ^offee and went to borrow
some from .1 neighbor. She gave
us some Postum and told us to try
that.
"Although we started to make it,
we all felt sure that we would be sick
if we missed our strong coffee, but we
tried Postum and were surprised to
find it delicious.
"We read the statements on the pkg.,
got more and in a month and a half
you wouldn't have known us. We all
were able to digest our food without
any trouble, each one's skin became
clear, tongues cleared off, and nerves
in lire condition. We never UBe anything
now- but Postum. There is noth
ing like it." Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
"There's a reason," and it is explained
in the little book, "The Road
to Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A nen
one appears from time to time. The?
are genuine, true, and full of hamuli
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Lesson
Cliy E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evening
Department, The Moody Bible
Institute of Chicago.)
LESSON FOR JULY 21
THE GROWTH OF THE KINGDOM.
LESSON TEXT?Mark 4:26-32, Matt. 13:
S.\
OOLDEN TEXT?'Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done, as in heaven bo on
earth."?Matt. 6:10.
Last week we observed the fact
that the genesis of this new kingdom
Jesus came to establish was to be
the life, his life, when was as seed.
The reception of the seed In various
sorts of soil, however, made a vast difference
as to the ultimate outcome.
Today we may observe from these
words of the Master what are to be
the processes of the establishing of
the kingdom, for we do not read Into
this parable a record of the final con-1
sumatlon, but rather that these parables
reveal different aspects of the
same general process.
While It Is true that this first parable
Is only recorded by St. Mark It Is j
in reality a complement of these para- j
bleB about the kingdom found In the
thirteenth of Matthew and elsewhere.;
We have already noted that the seed
is the word, Luke 8-11, and that the
soil Is the hearts of men, but herfc i
Jesus tells us that in the spiritual
as In the material universe man
"knoweth not how" the life principle 1
propogates Itself. It Is a helpful
thought to every Christian worker
that he Is not to be held accountable
for that part of the process; bis part
Is to be that of the man who shall
cast the seed Into the ground. Not
upon, but "Into." (v. 26). Having
thus planted the seed let him 'sleep 1
and rise again" e. g., let him trust a
wise God to see to It that the seed
germinate and bring forth. All of
your worrying and mine cannot hasten I
the process nor change the result once <
the seed Is sown, so let us be careful
to sow them right and ns far as
possible be sure we plant It In properly
prepared soil rather than waste It
among the thorns or where the blrdB
of the air (Satan) may soon snatch
Jt away.
Process is uraauai.
Again let us beware of presumptuousness
"he knoweth not how." Can
you, my reader, define life? Can you
explain the transmission, the development,
the propagation of life? We accept
the results of these things In nature
without questioning, why stagger
at similar things In the spiritual
realm? Why question the reality of
the Christian life when we see all
about us Its results? In verses 22 and j
23 of this same chapter we are admonished
that If we have ears "let
him hear" (a positive Injunction) and
almost the very next word tells us
to "take heed what we hear." Going '
on down to verse 28 of the lesson
we see clearly the reason for these
words, for our lives will grow and will
reproduce each after Jts own kind. If
we sow wheat we reap wheat. If we
allow tares to be sown In our lives
we shall reap tares.
The process Is a gradual one, but a
sure one. "First the blade, then the (
ear, and then the full corn In the
ear." The harvest w ill not take place
until the process be completed. It Is
not till the fruit Is ripe that the husbandman
puts forth his sickle. We
are not to bother ourselves so much
with the process as we are to guard
the source. Sow good seed and God
will sea to It that It shall bring forth.
Let us not expect the "full corn" of
ripe experience from the "tender
blade" of early Christian life. Let us
have patience till these young Christians
have time to reach the full maturity
of their powers. Jesus the harvester
of thifi narable knew when to
put In ths sickle, viz., when the fruit
Is "ripe." (v. 29, R. V.)
Whatever be the nature or character
of this harvest we are left to In- (
fer, for Jesus gives another picture of ,
this same mysterious yet Irresistible i
process whereby this kingdom Is to
grow. He compares It with a mustard
seed. The first was the Internal
hidden part of the process. This Is
to draw our attention to the outward
visible growth of the kingdom. Jesw
was humble and lowly in his com
ing and in his conduct here upon
earth.
The Main Truth.
Looking back over history his was
indeed "less than all the seeds in the
earth," yet he set Into motion those
principles and powers that have
caused his kingdom to become great
in the earth (Isa. 9:7.) I'nder the
branches of this kingdom have lodged (
the weary and the stricken ones. The
birds of the air symbolize the gathering
together of the nations of the
earth that they nay take refuge under
the shelter and sbadew of the
kingdom of God, see Ezek. 17, Daniel
4. etc. Wc must beware of fanciful
interpretations or applications. The
main truth is that almost without exception
the beginnings of all great
movements in the kingdom of God
have been like mustard seed, small
but exceeding great In their growth.
Witness such moral developments as
the slavery question. Compare the
prepent day temperance agitation with
what it amounted to one hundred, yes,
twenty-five year? ago. The same eon
be said cf countless other "movements."
For the third parable that of the
leaven which a woman hid In the
three measures of meal we need to refer
to Paul's inspired words as recorded
in 1 Cor. 5:5-7 and Gal. 5:S-9. Here
Paul explicitly tells us that leaven Is
a type of sin. That we who are In
Christ are a new lump, unleavened.
That the old leaven Is that of malice
and wickedness, but that we who have
put awa, leaven are the bread of sincerity
and truth. What do we therefore
infer? Viz., that as growing up
alongside the good seed shall also
grow the tares with fruitage of death
and decay.
We thus see three aspects of the
same truth, viz, that this kingdom Is
to grow, outwardly. Inwardly, and
sometimes It will ha.bor corruption.
How It grows we know not. That its
beginnings are small we all know, but
Its growth is for the sheltering and
the protection of the nations
Some people think there ought to
be a great deal of prayer tind fasting
In the church but they want somebody
else to do It.
There Isn't any place In God'j service
for a coward.
SOLACE IN HIS MISFORTUNE
>
Entombed Miner Had at Least One
Pleasant Thought After Two
Days of Suffering.
Miners are among the most heroic
people In the world. Danger is always
beside them, and they are schooled to
believe that any time they will come
face to face with death. The result of
this is that they are humorous In their
boldness.
In one of the mines of Pennsylvania
there was a cave-In which imprisoned
a miner named Jack Thornton. The j
accident happened on Friday afternoon,
and the fellow laborers of the
entombed man set to work at once to
dig him out. It wsh not until Sunday |
morning, however, that they reacnea ;
his prison chamber, and by this time
they were wondering whether he had
been suffocated or starved to death.
One of them stuck his head through
the aperture made by the picks of
the rescuers and called out:
"Jack, are you all right?"
"All right," came the reply, and then
after a pause: "What day is this?"
"Sunday!" exclaimed the friend.
"Gee!" exclaimed Jack, "I'm glad of
that. That was one Saturday night
when those saloonkeepers didn't get
my wages."?Popular Magazine.
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It became offensive and gradually
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The Usual Way.
"Yes; he committed political suicide."
"How can a man commit political
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A better thing than tooth powder to
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She Was a Duster.
Mrs. Sutton advertised for a woman
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"Are you a good laundress?"
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"Can you sweep?" asked Mrs. Sutton.
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Everybody's.
Deliberating.
The Rev. James Hamilton, minister
of Liverpool, while on holiday In Scotland.
had a narrow escape from
drowning. Accompanied by a boy, Mr.
Hamilton was fishing for sea trout
when he slipped on a stone, lost his 1
balance, and being encumbered with
heavy wading boots, had great dlfl}cultv
In keeping his head above water.
Finally he managed to get back to the
shore, although In a very exhausted
state, and said to the boy: "I noticed
that you never tried to help me."
"Nr." was the deliberate response,
"but I was thlnkin' o't."
Her Ruling Passion.
The woman who had chased dust
nnH Hirt- aII h?r life finally reached St
Peter.
"Come In. you poor, tired woman,"
he said, and held the gate ajar.
Hut the woman hesitated.
"Tell me first," ehe Bald, "how often
you clean house?"
The Balnt smiled.
"You can't ehake off the ruling passion.
can you?" he said. "Oh, well, step
Inside and they'll give you a broom
and dustpan Instead of a harp."?
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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All women are more or less credulous,
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The Worrier.
Knicker?Does Jack worry?
Docker?Yes; lie wants to pasteui*
ize spilt milk?Judge.
Simple Explanation.
To illustrate a point that he was
making?that his was the rare with a
future and not a race with a pastBooker
T. Washington told this little
story the other day.
He was standing by his door one
morning when old Aunt Caroline went
by.
"Good morning, Aunt Caroline," he
said. "Where are you going this morning?"
"Lawzee, Mfsta' Wash'ton." she
replied. "I'se done been whar I'sa
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JUST CAUSE FOR PRIDE.
/ j
"Wot's eo tickled about?"
"He's jest discovered his birthday's
on 1e same day as Ad Wnleast's!"
i" said Teddy of Big Bill,
bad made the biter ill.
ubject of Bill's voracious bite
)ther with a keener appetite.
by WrtXIAM T. HHS'CKS,
2u7 Mule St., IJridtfeport, Conn.
ostum Co.,
luy.
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