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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
There is a woman at the beginning of
all great thing! l ..
Tb© way of the world is to maka
laws, but follow customs.
To rule one’s anger is well; to pre
vent it iB still hotter.
The' man who never gives away any
thing cheats himself.
Character building is bigger work
than building railroads.
Most people believe in the total de
pravity of somebody else.
It isn’t always the brightest girl that
casta the most reflections.
Poets utter great and wise things
whWh they do not themselves under
stand.
A wedding ceremony Is never a suc
cess unless there is a hitch in it some
where.
How little a man knows of hie coun
trymen —unless be lives In a country
village.
The top round of the ladder is an
Imaginary one; nobody has ever
reached it yet.
A wise man is never confounded by
what he can’t understand, but a fool
generally is.
I am no herald to inquire of men’s
pedigrees; it eufflceth me if I know of
their virtues.
It is not always necessary to tell the
whole truth, but all that you tell
should be Che truth.
There is no subject on which so
much arrant nonsense has been writ
ten as on that of money.
Nantn Fe Route —California I.lmlteri.
Leaves Chicago 6p. m. Wednesdays
and Saturdays, reaching 1 Los Angeles
in 72 hours and San Diego in 76>£
hours. Returns from California Mon
days and Thursdays.
Equipment of suburb vestibuled
Pullman pulacc sleepers, buffet smok
ing car and dining car. Most luxur
ious service via any line.
Another express train, carrying both
palace and tourist sleepers, leaves
Chicago lo:sr>p. m. daily, for Los An
geles, San Diego and San Francisco.
Inquire of G. T. Nicholson, General
Passenger Agenf, Great Northern
Building, Chicago.
A Matter of DUpo*ltlon.
"My wife was rather worried when I left
her this morning."
“'What was the trouble?"
"Well, she had i*eeu worrying about
fcomething ur other last night, nud this
morning she couldn't remember what it
was)"
Are You Going to Florida?
For rates, time cards and descriptive
matter for Florida and all points in
the south and southeast, address the
following agents of the popular Hig
Four Route: J. C. Tucker, General
Northern Agent, or 11. W. Sparks,
Traveling Pstssenger Agent, £34 Clark
St., Chicago.
Three copies of the bible, written on
leaves of the fan palm, are in the British
Museum.
IloHicaeekers’ Exeuraion*.
Very low rates will be made by the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway on
November 17th, December Ist and 15th,
to the south. For particulars apply tc
the nearest local agent, or address, 11.
A. Cherrier, N. P. A., 316 Marquette
Bldg., Chicago, 111.
Cutting the Nuisance In Half.
"Doctor, if you have to send a nurse, let
It t»e that woman with the cork leg."
••Why do you prefer her?"
"Because she can ouly wear oue squeaky
shoe in the sick room.'*
When Dream* May Come.
Patient—Doctor, I dreamed something
terrible last night. I saw my dead father
Doctor -What did you eat for supper!
Patient —A mince die.
Doctor -My friend, if you eat two miuce
pies tonight you will see your grandfather.
|| |Q ; HERE IS
IS THE ONLYONC
Id I Mfc SURE WAY
Tl IWI E known to medical
■ * B " B ™ men for prompt
t ly checking
0* year .. .. troubles of the
r when men .. kidneys and re
, storing these great
and women .. organs to health
become weak- and strength, and
. , that is by the use of
E£“s§lSE
down gener- it has stood the
ollw TVir» test of time,; it has
ally. .. .. in saved thousands of
first parts that lives; it has resfcor
the weather ed millions of suf
± .l ferers to health;
affects are the| has done what
kidneys. The I was never done,
ic never attempted
urea IS not before; it has made
thrown off, men stronger and
■ *. • r . healthier; it has
but IS forced made ..women
back upon the brighter and hap
lungs, and dis- K’e j*„ kVthese
ease results qualities. Do you
ndt think it would
' caused b) be wise for you to
weakness of use it and thus
♦v.-. uUno,,,, avoid the dangers
the kidneys. of the season? In-
having it.
tMBT MISSOURI.
The best fruit section In tbe West. No
drouths A failure of crops never known.
Mild climate. Productive soil. Abundance of
good pure water.
For Maps and Circulars Riving full descrip
tion of tbe Kith Mineral. Fruit and Agricultu
ral Lands In south West Missouri, write to
JOBN M. PtJKI>Y. Manager of the Missouri
Land and Live stock Company, Neosho, New
ton Co., Missouri.
PENSIONS, PATENTS, CLAIMS.
JOHN W MORRIS WASHINGTON, 0. C.
L»U Frl»ctp»l EitolMr 0 -8 F.n.ioo Bur...
3 yn. in last wnr, 13 mtjuilmatuig clninu, utij.
ADIIIII HsbttCurMt. Kiit. tn 1871. ThuuMmlx
111 Him ' 11, it|,t St mill Ix-m run*, tH nc I'kiai.
* * BtoteoiN. Pm. Mabsii, Ijutnry, Mlnh.
DITCIIVt JO year*' ei|»erlence. mend svetcli f.ir ,wt.
nUCRIO. vice (1, Pl ane, u»l,> ru in. ,-KHiniiu-r U.ri.
Kat.OtUcci ileaueS Weaver. Mi UilUJlilg.,Wa.-.Ii.P.C.
i Thompson’s Eye Water.
\ THE PIECE THAT WAS LOST. |
It was a midsummer morning. The
grasß was waiting for the scythe, but
after breakfast Silas Rogers took down
the old bible that had been bis moth
er’s dally companion for over eighty
years, and they sat reverently down
to worship. The reading was that ten
der lesson of the wandering sheep, and
the lost piece of silver, and ended with
the heavenly rejoicing “over the sin
ner that repenteth," and after the earn
est, though homely prayer, they were
ready for work. Abner, the hired man.
and Reuben, the boy, as they started
out of the house, almost stumbled over
a woman sitting in the doorway, ab
sorbed in though:. Silas looked at hpr.
but did not stay to question her. And
when they were gone, 3he rose
abruptly and said, "Will you give me
some breakfast?"
Mrs. Rogers looked at her. She was
a tall and not uncomely woman of
about thirty, but with something in
definably evil about her face. The hard
mouth, the bold, defiant eyes, repelled
her, yet it seemed as if at any instant
they might break into scornful tears.
"Who are you?” asked the good wife
coming nearer, with a pan of bread
in her hand. Again the face darkened
and lightened, grew hard and yield
ing, with the sudden declaration, “I
am the piece that was lost.’’
Martha Rogers had not a particle of
poetry in her nature, but she had the
most profound reverence for the Scrip
ture, therefore the words both puzzled
and shocked her. But she was not the
woman to refuse bread to the hungry;
so she placed food upon the table, and
motioned the woman to a chair, say
ing. "Set up and eat.”
All the time that the woman was eat
ing—and she did not hasten —her eyes
followed the mistress and Hetty, the
bright young daughter, until Martha
Rogers grew nervous and sent Hetty
to "red up the chambers.’’
"Will you give me work to do?" she
demanded rather than asked.
"Who are you?” asked Mrs. Rogers
again, simply to gain time.
"I thought you knew. lam Moll
Pritchard; they have turned me out of
my house, burned it over my head,”
and her eyes grew lurid.
"What can you do?” asked Mrs.
Rogers.
“Anything that a woman can do, or
a man. I can work in the field with
the best of fliem; I have done it many
a time; but I should like to do what —
to be like other women.”
"Are you a good woman?"
The question came straight and
strong, without any faltering. She had
heard of this Moll Pritchard, a woman
who lived alone In a tumble down hut
below the sawmill, and won a meager
living by weaving rag carpets, picking
berries for sale, and, it was suspected
in less reputable ways; but Martha Ro
gers took no stock in idle rumors. If
she had not the divine compassion, she
had something like divine justice,
which is altogether a sweeter thing in
its remembering of our frame “than
the tender mercies of the wicked.”
The woman lookedat her curiously—
at first with a mocking smile, then
with a sullen, and at last with a defiant
expression.
IAA
”1 AM THE PIECE THAT WAS
LOST.”
“Is it likely?” she said fiercely. “A
good woman! How should I be a good
woman? I tell you, I’m the piece that
was lost, and nobody ever looked for
me. If I was a good woman, do you
•uppose 1 should be where 1 be —only
28 yean* old, well and hearty, and
every door In the world shut In my
face? I tell you the man who wrote
that story didn’t know women; they
don't hunt for the piece that’s lost,
they Just let it go. There’s enough of
them and don’t get lost.”
Poor Martha Rogers was sorely per
plexed, all the more that her way had
lain so smooth and plain before her
that she might have walked into it
blindly. If she was a lost piece of
silver, it \vas not she who lost It; but
what if it were the Master's, precious
to his heart, and a careless hand
dropped it and left it to lie In the dust?
And w hat if he bade her to seek it, and
find It for him? Should she dare re
fuse? On this very day, when she
seeded so surely the help which she had
so looked for in vain, had not this
woman been sent to her very door,
and was it not a plain leading of Prov
idence? It ts a bleaaed thing for us
that we are usually driven to act first
pnd theorize afterward, even though
Ihe after-thought sometimes brings re
pentance. The bread was ready for
the oven and the woodbox empty.
"You may fetch iu some wood,” said
Martha Rogers, and the woman
promptly obeyed, filling the box with
one load of her sinewy arms, and then
stood humbly waitiug. Hetty came iu
to the kitchen and began to clear the
table, but her mother said, "Go upstairs
and fetch a big apron and one of our
sewing caps, and see if you can finish
up your dress.”
Away went Hetty, her light hoar!
bounding with (he unexpected release;
and the mother turned again to tho
woman, furnished her with a coarse
towel, and sent her to the wash house
for a thorough purification. Half an
hour afterward, with her hair hidden
in the muslin cap, her whole figure en
veloped in the calico apron, a comedy
woman was silently engaged in house
hold tasks, doing her work with such
rapidity and Bklll that the housewife
drew a sigh of relief.
"There’s a handful of towels and
coarse clothes left from the ironing;
you might put the irons on, Mary, and
smooth ’em out.”
The woman turned a startled face
upon her, and then went quickly for
the clothes; but something was it a
tear? —rolled down her swarthy cheeks,
mingling with (he bright drops she
sprinkled over them. When had she
ever hoard anything but Moll? Not
since among New Hampshire hills a
pale woman had lain her hands upon
the tangled curls of her little daugh
ter and prayed that some one would
watch over these wayward feet, lest
they should go astray. It made Moll
shudder to think of it. What did she
know about joy in heaven over one
sinner and repenteth?
* * * *
Silas Rogers listened t© the day’s
story as he sat mending a bit of har
ness with clumsy fingers, and among
his other thoughts he grasped the idea
that his wife had secured a valuable
aud much-needed helper.
"It seems a risk to run.” said Mar
tha, anxiously, "and I don’t know but
it's presumtuoue; there’s Hetty and
there's Reuben ”
“And there’s the Lord," said Silas,
stopping to open his knife.
"Yes,” said Martha, with a little
start, "and I quite can’t get rid of
what she said about the 'piece that was
lost,’ though, to be sure, the woman
that lost it ought to hunt it.”
“She never does; folks are always
losing things for somebody else to
find; ’taint many of them can say,
‘Those that thou hast given me I have
kept,’ right straight along.”
"But if you lose your own piece look
ing after other folk's "
“Well, there’s the.rinks, as you say,
but I’d rather take a risk for the
l-<or<i than agin him."
Martha Rogers took the risk for the
Lord, and he abundantly justified and
rewarded her faith. For the piece that
was lost becomes “my piece" to the
heart that finds it again in the Mas
ter’s hand; and locking the story of
the wanderer in her own breast, it was
oni.v to the angels that she said, "Re
joice wih me."
And when years afterward the wom
an herself said before the committee
of the church, "I am the woman over
whom there is a great joy in heaven,”
there was not wantiug those who
thought she was presumptuously claim
ing to be a saint.—Emily Huntington
Miller.
A flood Advertising Medium.
A glance in an Atlanta book store
yesterday made this striking truth
stand forth:
Death is sometimes a big advertise
ment.
In no department of human effort do
men put forth such terrific energy as
in their attempts to catch the public
eye. Men rack their brain for ingeni
ous schemes to attract public attention.
The good advertiser is the rarest and
richest of successes.
But some times ail the cleverness
and ingenuity of these brain workers
are beaten —and unexpectedly.
Du Manrier’s death last week was
an advertisement for Harper Bros,
which no idea they might dig out of
their brains could excel. It has started
a great rush after last month’s Har
per’s, which contained the first install
ment of "The Martian,’’ Du Manner's
new story, and a third edition of the
number is now being fast exhausted.
Those who cannot find the magazine
are investing in "Peter Ibbeteon,” and
if there happen to be any who have not
read "Trilby” they invest in that. The
book dealers will tell you that In the
past four days there lias been a won
derful demand for Du Maurier’s works.
This great author who has added
thousands to the cofTers of the Har
pers by his life, is adding thousands
to their profits by the mere fact of his
death. —Atlanta Constitution.
The Spirit of Modern Athena.
Modern Athens, which recalls in ao
many ways the Athens of ancient days,
has inherited from her the privilege of
being beautiful and enriched by her
children. The public treasury was not
always very well filled in those times
any more than in the present, but
wealthy citizens who had nlade for
tunes at a distance liked to crown their
commercial career by some act of lib
erality to the mother country. They
endowed the land with superb edifices
of general utility—theaters, gymna
sia, temples. The modern city is like
wise full of monuments which she owes
to such generosity. It was easy to ob
tain from private individuals w'hat the
state could not give. The Olympic
games had burned with so bright a lus
ter in the past of the Greeks that they
could not but have their revival at
heart. —"The Olympic Games of 1896.”
by Baron Pierre de Caubertin. in the
Century.
A Mure Sinn.
“I saw Muggins on his front poicu
this evening smoking a cigar; it must
be that his wife is away.”
"What makes you think so?”
“Why, when she’s at home he smokes
a brier-root pipe and tries to look eco
nomical." —Buffalo Express.
Rev. John Wier, after nine years of
continuous labor In Japan, is soon to
return with his family to this country.
SACRED CONFIDENCE, j
No Woman’s Letter Published i
Except by Request-
Mr*, rink ham** Tmdrr Hr Ist Inn* With (
the Suffering of Her Sex—Wolat*
Who Cannot Hide Their
Happiness.
There is a class of women who. from
iheir own experience, sympathize with
their suffering sisters, and in order
that such suffering
may be lessened, no
bly pet aside false I
modesty und in £
heartfelt gratitude J' yf
women, iter
and has J JVnV
requested J lkUr
us to pub- f if u
facts in her l//Ib Al
case, other- BB // if ( I
wise it would W 1 I jj) \
not be done, as J /
uil such evidence
is treated in sacred confidence, unless
publication is requested by the writer.
She says to Mrs. Pinkham : —“ I
wish you would publish tlie circum
stances of my case, in order that other
women may be benefited by ray expe
rience.
“ I doctored nearly all the time for
two years. I spent several hundred
dollars without receiving much lienetit.
Last .Tune I wrote to you and described
all my aches and pains. Such a long
list as there was: headache, back
ache, bearing-down pains, terrible
soreness, constipation, dizziness, feel
ing of extreme lassitude, irregularity
and nausea; but you answered my
letter and told me’jnst what to do. I
followed your advice.
“ After taking eight bottles of tho
Vegetable Compound and three bot
tles of Blood Purifier, i ain glad to
write you that 1 have not enjoyed such
good health for years, and I am able
to do all my own work. I can surely
sound the praises of Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound, and a
number of my friends are taking it
upon my recommendation.’’ — Mhs. W.
L. Ej.liott, Liscomb, lowa
So Far M H« Knew.
“Are you well?”
“I believe so. yet I can't sav positively,
I haven’t had time to look up the new di
seases m to-day’s paper.”
How's This i
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for any case of catarrh that cannot be
cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
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We. the undersigned, have known F. J.
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by all druggists.
A Pair.
Physician (traveling out West) —Yes, I
nuve been a practicing physician for thir
ty-live years.
Butts Bitters (enthusiasticully)—Shake,
old man. shake: its many a man I've sent
to his last account, too.
An Important Difference.
To make it apparent to thousands who
think themselves ill, that they are not af
flicted with any disease, but that the sys
tem simply needs cleansing, is to bring
comfort home to their heurte, as a costive
condition is easily cured by using Syrup of
Figs. Manufactured by the California Fig
Syrup Company only, and sold by all drug
gists.
One of tbe most important duties of tbe
German soldier is to take care of his feet,
so that they will always be in good condi
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The first hort.es in this eonntrv were
brought here in the year 15 IS. Id I*9o
there were 14,056,750 of them in the United
States.
Mr. Edward Wood. Primghar. lowa,
writes: "I have taken Dr. Kay's Renovator
and it has cured me of dyspepsia of about
ten years' standing. I was so bad off that
everything! ate soured on my stomach. I
can now eat most anything.” Sold by
druggists, or sent by mail, -5c and (1.00.
Bee adv.
Women comprise two-thirds of t he church
members of the United States, but only
one-thirtieth of the criminals.
Two bottles of Piso’a Cure for Uonsiuup
tiou cured me of a bml lung trouble. Mrs.
J. Nichols, Priucetou, Ind., March 05.
It is estimated that there are now 865
tons of gold in circulation in the world.
TO CURE A COLO IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Hromo Quinine Tablets. Ab
Druggists refund the monev IX it fuils to wore. 25c
Miss Vivian Sartories, grand-daughter of
Gen. Grant, is one of this year’s more
notable debutuntes in Washington society.
Uascarets stimulate liver, kidueys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gri|>e.
It is said that when Queen Victoria and
the Empress Eugenie are together, they
spend all their time doing needle
work for the juior.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes: so
shall thy rest strengthen thy lalwr, and so
shall thy labor sweeten thy rest. - Quarles.
When at a very low tenn>crature snow
will absorb moisture, and Arctic travelers
muke use of it for dryiug their clothes.
In France the population uverages aliout
187 to the square mile. In this couutry the
average is 21 to the square mile. •
The olive harvest in Southern California
began a week ugo. The crop is a light one
this year.
We cannot have tiod's favor and the
pleasures of siu both.
FIGS AND THISTLES.
Misfortune aad Imprudence are often
twins.
God goes with the man who is wil
ling to take a hard place.
Better be a lamp in the house, than
try to be a star in the sky.
God made man too great to find his
life in the present moment.
Therels no virtue in doing right
simply because we have to.
Backsliding begins when the Chris
tian begins to live on stale bread.
Fop the Wintern Farmer.
"I’m afraid," said the Chicago bunco
man, "that the gold brick game is alxrnt
played out."
‘ Thereisn’t any doubt of it,” remarked
his friend. "You’ve got to use the silver
brick now.”
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The cemeteries of the city of London cov
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Coe'* i'aoin BatMm
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tluui anything else. It is »lw»js reliable. Try it.
The Japanese, up to 1856, were vaccinated
on the tip of the nose.
Just try a 10c box of Cascareta, the finest
iver aud bowel regulator ever made.
Give your palms a weekly bath. This
does not refer to your hands.
Mrs. Burton Harrison,
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licious, nutritious, and flesh-forming bever
m I|4 age, is put up in Blue Wrappers and Yel-
JV low Labels. Be sure that the Yellow
HI llfttl Label and our Trade-Mark are on every
WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass.
TRADI-MAKK.
A Trifling Mistake.
Proof-reader See here, you’ve aet hj
the population of this city 10,000,000 lasteca
of 1.000,000.
Tramp Printer (from the west) —Rah’
You eastern folks is almighty particular,
beeuib to me. -»
Practical Te*t.
Mr. Hobbe- Dear, this paper says sewing
ib to a woman what whistling is to a man.
"Is that no! Well, here, take little Disk's
trousers and whistle a couple of patches
on them while I go to the matinee."
During 1895 there were 1,561 [ost office*
burglarized in the United States.
A wbule of average size has a jaw bone
£5 feet in length.
“It will go
away after awhile.”
That's what people say when
advised to take something to
cure that cough.
Have you ever noticed that
the cough that goes away alter
awhile takes thecougher along?
And he doesn't come back!
Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral
Cures Coughs.
W.N.U. b.M—1272 NO. 48
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