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CHAPTER Xll.—(Continued.)
Here Jenny'* remarks were interrupt
ed by the loud rattling of wheels, and the
halloo of many voice*. Going to the
door, she aad Mary *aw coming down
the road at a furious rate the old hay
cart, laden with young people from Chic
opee, who had been berrying In Stur
brldge and were now returning home in
high glee. The horses were fantastically
trimmed with ferns and evergreens, while
several of the girls were ornamented In
the same way. Conspicuous among the
lioisy group was Ella Campbell. Henry
Lincoln's broad-brimmed hat was rest
ing on her long curls, while her white
sun-bonnot was tied under Henry's chin.
The moment Jenny appeared the whole
party set up a shout so deafening that
the Widow Perkins came out in a trice
to see "if the Old Harry was to pay, or
what." No sooner did Henry Lincoln got
sight of Mary than springing to his feet,
and swinging his arm around his head, he
screamed out: "Three cheers for the
schoolma'am and her handsome lover,
Billy! Hurrah!"
"Wasn't that smart?" said Jenny,
when at last the hay cart disapeared
from view, and the noise and dust had
somewhat subsided. Then as she saw
the tears in Mary's eyes she added, "Oh,
I wouldn't care if they did tease me about
Billy Bender. I'd as lief be teased about
him as not."
"It isn't that," said Mary, smiling in
spite of herself, at Jeuny's frankness. "It
isn't that. I didn't like to hear Ella sing
with your brother, when she must have
known he meant, to annoy me."
"That certainly was wrong," retained
Jenny, "but Ella isn't so much to blame
as Henry, who seems to have acquired a
great inlluence over her during the few
weeks he has been at home. You know
she 1s easily flattered, and I dare say
Henry has fully gratified her vanity in
that respect, for he says she is the only
decent looking girl in Chicopee. But see,
there comes Mrs. Masoa; I guess she
wonders what is keeping you so long."
The moment Mrs. Mason entered the
school room, Jenny commenced talking
about Mount Holyoke, her tongue run
ning so fast that it entirely prevented
anyone else from speaking until she stop
ped for a moment to take breath. Then
Mrs. Mason very quietly remarked that
if Mary wished to go to Mount Holyoke
she could do so, Mary looked up inquir
ingly, wondering what mine had opened
so suddenly at her feet; but she received
no explanation until Jenny had bidden
her good-by and gone. Then she learn
ed that Mrs. Mason had just received one
hundred dollars from a man In Boston,
who had years before owed it to her hus
band, and was unable to pay it sooner.
"And now," said Mrs. Mason, "there is
no reason why you should not go to
Mount Holyoke, if you wish to."
"Oh, what a forlorn-looking place!"
exclaimed Hose Lincoln, as from the win
dows of the crowdeil vehicle in which
they had come f.'om the cars she first ob
tained a view of the not very handsome
village of South Hadley.
Rose was In the worst of humors, for
by some mischance Mary was on the
aame seat with herself, and consequently
she was very much distressed and crowd
ed. She, however, felt a little afraid of
Aunt Martha, who she saw was inclined
to favor the object of her wrath, so she
restrained her fault-finding spirit until
nhe arrived at South Hadley, where ev
erything came in for a share of her dis
pleasure.
"That the seminary!" said she con
temptuously, as they drew up before the
building. "Why, it isn't half as lurge or
handsome as I supposed. Oh, horror! I
know I shan't stay here long."
The furniture of the parlor was also
very offensive to the young lady, and
when Miss Lyon came in to meet them
she, too, was secretly styled "a prim,
fussy, slippery-tongued old maid." Jenny,
however, who aiways saw the bright side
of everything, was completely charmed
with the sweet smile and placid face.
After some conversation between Miss
I,yon and Aunt Martha it was decided
that Rose and Jenny should room togeth
er, as a matter of course, and that Mary
should room with Ma. Itose had fully
intended to room with Ida herself, an. 1
this decision made lur very angry; but
there was no help for it, and she was
obliged to submit.
Ami now in a few days life at Mount
Holyoke commenced in earnest. Although
perfectly healthy, Mary looked rather
delicate, and it was for this reason, per
haps. that the sweeping anil dusting of
several rooms were assigned to her, as
her portion of the labor. Ida and Rose
fared much worse, and were greatly
shocked when told that they both belong
ed to the wash circle!
"I declare," said Rose, "It's too bad.
I'll walk home before I'll do it;" and she
glanced at her white hauds, to make sure
they were not already discolored by the
dreadful soapsuds!
Jenny was delighted with her allot
ment, which was dish-washing.
"I'm glad I took a lesson at the poor
house years ago." said she one day to
Rose, who snappishly replied:
"IM shut up about the poorhouse, or
they'll think you the pauper instead of
Jlacl:im Howard."
"I'i.iiper? Who's a pauper?" asked
Lucy Downs, eager to hear so desirable
a piece of news.
Ida Seidell's large black eyes rested
reprovingly upon Rose, who nodded to
ward Mary, and forthwith Miss Downs
departed with the information, which
was not long in reaching Mary's ears.
"Why, Mary, what's the matter?" ask
ed Ida, when, toward the close of the
day, sh« found her companion weeping
in her room. Without lifting her head
Mary replied, "It's foolish in me to cry,
I know, but why need I always be re
proached with having been a pauper? I
couldn't help it, I promised mother I
would take care of little Allie as long as
she lived, and if she went to the poor
house I had to go too."
"Virl wh'j was little Allie?" asked Ida,
taking Mary's hot hauds between her
own.
In a few words Mary reluteil her his
tory, omitting her acquaiutaiice with
George Moreland, and commencing at the
night when her mother died. Ida was
warm-hearted and affectionate, and cared
but little whether one were rich or poor
if she liked them. From the first she had
been interested in Mary, and now wind
ing her arms about her neck, and kissing
away her tears, she promised to love her,
and to be to her as true and faithful a
friend as Jenny. This promise, which
was never broken, was of great benefit to
Mary, drawing to her side many of the
best girls in school, who soon learned
to love her for herself, and not because
the wealthy Miss Selden seemed so fond
of her.
Soon after Mary went to Mount Hol
yoke she had received a letter from Billy,
in which he expressed his pleasure that
she was at school, but added that the
fact of her being there interfered great
ly with his plan of educating her him
self. "Mother's ill health," said he, "pre
vented me from doing anything until now,
and just as I am in a fair way to accom
plish my object someone else has stepped
in before me. But it is all right, and as
you do not seem to need my services at
present 1 shall next week leave Mr. Sel
den's employment, and go into Mr. Wor
thington's law office as clerk, hoping that
when the proper time arrives I shall not
be defeated in another plan which was
formed in boyhood, and which has become
the gloat object of my life."
Mary felt perplexed and troubled.
Billy's letters of late had been more like
those of a lover than a brother, and she
could not help guessing the nature of
"the plan formed in boyhood." She knew
she should never love him except with a
sister's love, and though she could not
tell him so her next letter lacked the tone
of affection with which she was accus
tomed to write, and was on the whole a
rather formal affair. Billy, who readily
perceived the change, attributed it to the
right cause, and from that time his let
ters became far less cheerful than usual.
Mary usually cried over them, wishing
more than once that Billy would trans
fer his affection from herself to Jenny,
and it was for this reason, perhaps, that
without stopping to consider the propri
ety of the matter, she first asked Jenny
to write to him, and then encouraged her
in answering his notes, which became
gradually longer and longer, until at last
his letters were addressed to Jenny, while
the notes they contained were directed to
Mary!
CHAPTEK XIII.
Rapidly the days passed on at Mount
Holyoke. Autumn faded into winter,
whose Icy tireath floated for a time over
the mountain tops, and then melted away
at the approach of spring, which, with
its swelling buds and early flowers, gave
way in its turn to the long bright days of
summer. And now only a few weeks re
mained ere the annual examination at
which Ida was to be graduated.
Neither Rose nor Jenny were to return
the next year, and nothing but Mr. Lin
coln's firmness and good sense had pre
vented their being sent for when their
mother first heard that they had failed
to enter the middle class. Mrs. Lincoln's
mortification was undoubtedly greatly in
creased from the fact that the despised
Mary had entered in advance of her
daughters. "Things are comiug to a pret
ty pass," said she. "Yes, a pretty pass;
but I might have known better than to
send my children to such a school."
She insisted upon sending for Rose
and Jenny, but Mr. Lincoln promptly re
plied that they should not come home.
Still, as Rose seemed discontented, com
plaining that so much exercise made her
side and shoulder ache, and as Jenny
diil not wish to remain another year un
less Mary did, he consented that they
should leave school at the close of the
term, ou condition that they went some
where else.
"I shall never make anything of Hen
ry," said he, "but my daughters shall
receive every advantage, and perhaps one
or the other of them will comfort my old
age."
He had spoken truly with regard to
Henry, who was studying, or pretending
to study, law in the same office with Billy
Render. But his father heard no favor
able accounts of him, and from time to
time large bills were presented. So It
is no wonder the disappointed father
sighed, and turned to his daughters for
the comfort his only son refused to give.
For the examination at Mount Holyoke
great preparations were being made.
Rose, knowing she was not to return,
seemed to think all further effort on her
part unnecessary; anil numerous were the
reprimands, to say nothing of the black
marks which she received. Jenny, on the
contrary, said she wished to retrieve her
reputation for laziness, and leave behind
a good impression. So, never before in
her whole life hail she behaved so well,
or studied as hard as she did (luring the
last few weeks of her stay at Mount Hol
yoke. Ida, who was expecting her fath
er, aunt and cousin to be present at the
auniversary, was so engrossed with her
studies that she did uot observe how
sad aud low-spirited Mary seemed. She
had tasted of knowledge and now thirst
ed for more; but it could not be; the
funds were exhausted, aud she must leave
the school, never perhaps to return again.
"How much I shall miss my music, and
how much I shall miss you," she said one
day to Ida, who was girlug her a lesson.
"It's too bad you haven't a piano," re
turned Ida, "you are so fond of it, and
improve so fast!" Then after a Moment,
she added, "1 have a plan to propose, and
may as well do It now as at uny time.
Next winter you must spend with nie iu
Boston. Aunt Martha and I arranged it
the last time I was at home, and we even
selected your room, which is next to
mine, aud opposite to Aunt Martha's.
Now, what does your ladyship say to it?"
"She says she can't go," aaswerod
Mary.
"Can't go!" repeated Ida. "Why not?
Jenny will be in the city, and you are
ulwnys happy where she is; beside*, you
will have a rare chance for taking miisTe
lessons of our host teachers; and thi>n,
too. you will lie in tlie same house with
George, nnil thai alone is worth going to
Boston for. 1 think."
Ma little suspected that her Inst argu
ment was the strongest objection to
Mary's going, for. much ns she wished
to meet George again, she felt that she
would not on any account go to his home,
lest he should think she came on pur
pose to see him. There were oilier rea
sons, too, why she did not wish to go.
Henry and Hose Lincoln would hoth lie
in the city, and she knew that neither
of them would scruple to do or say any
thing which they thought wonifl annoy
her. Mrs. Mason, too, missed her, anil
longed to have her at home; so she resist
ed all Ida's entreaties, and the next let
ter which went to Aunt Martha carried
her refusal.
In a day or two Mary received two let
ters. one from Billy and one from Mrs.
Mason, the latter of which coutaineil
money for the payment of her bills: hut,
on offering it to the principal, how was
she surprised to learn that her bills had
not only been regularly paid and receipt
ed, hut that ample funds were provided
for the defraying of her expenses during
the coming year. A faint sickness stole
over Mary, for she instantly thought of
Billy Bender, and the obligation she
would now lie under to him forever. Then
it occurred to her how impossible it was
that he should have earned so much in
so short a time; and lis soon ns she could
trust her voice to speak, she asked who
it was that had thus befriended her.
The preceptress was not lit liberty to
tell, and with a secret suspicion of Aunt
Martha, Mary returned to her room to
read the other letter, which was still un
opened. Her head grew dizzy, and her
spirits faint, as she read the passionate
outpouring of a hear* which had cherish
ed her image for years, nnil which,
though fearful of rejection, would still
tell her how much she was beloved. "It
is no sudden fancy," said he. "Once,
Mary, I believed my affection for you
returned, but now you are changed. Your
letters are brief and cold, and when I
look around for the cause I am led to
fear that I was deceived in thinking you
ever loved me. If 1 am mistaken, tell
me so; hut If I am not, if you enn never
be tny wife. I will school myself to think
of you as a brother would think of an
only and darling sister."
For several days Mary had not been
well, and the excitement produced by
Billy's tetter tended to increase her ill
ness. During the hours in which she was
alone that day she had ample time for
reflection, and before night she wrote a
letter to Billy, iu which she told him how
impossible it was for her to be the wife
of one whom she had always loved as an
own and dear brother. This letter caused
Mary so much effort, and so many hitter
tears, that for several days she continued
worse, and nt last gave up nil hope of be
ing present at the examination.
"Oh, it's too bad!" said Ida, "for I do
want you to see Cousin George, and 1
know he'll be disappointed, too, for I
never saw anything like the interest he
takes in you."
A few days afterward, as Mary was
lying thinking of Billy, and wondering if
she had done right in writing to him as
she did, Jenny came rushing in. wild
with delight.
Her father was downstairs, together
with Ida's father, George and Aunt Mar
tha. "Most the first thing I did," said
she, "was to Inquire after Billy Bender!
I guess Aunt Martha was shocked, for
she looked so queer. George laughed,
and Mr. Selden said he was doing well,
and was one of the finest young men in
Boston."
During the whole of George's stay at
Mount Holyoke Hose managed to keep
him at her side, entertaining hint occa
sionally with unkind remarks concerning
Mary, who, she said, was undoubtedly
feigning her sickness so as not to appear
in her classes where she knew she could
do herself no credit; "but," said she, "as
soon as the examinntiou is over she'll get
well fast enough and bother us with her
company at Chieopee."
In this Hose was mistaken, for when
the exercises closed Mary was still too ill
to ride, and it was lecided that she
should remain a few days until Mrs. Ma
son could come for her. With mnny tears
Ida and Jenny bade their young friend
good-by, hilt Hose, when asked to go up
and see her, turned away disdainfully,
amusing herself during their absence by
talking and laughing with George More
land.
The room In which Mary lay command
ed a view of the yard and gateway; and
after Aunt Martha, Ida and Jenny hud
left, she arose, and stealing to the win
dow, looked out upon the company as
they departed. She could readily divine
which was George Morcland, for Rose
Lincoln's shawl and satchel were thrown
over his arm, while Hose herself walked
close to his elbow, apparently engrossing
his whole attention. Once he turned
around, but fearful of being observed,
Mary drew back behind the window cur
tain, and thus lost a view of his face,
(To be continued.)
Zulus of the Railroads.
"Do you know what a Zulu is?" said
an old railroad man. The traveling man
who was waiting for his train smiled
In a way that was meant to indicate
he knew all the species of Zulus that
ever existed, and told the railroad man
about the Africans, called Zulus, who
maintained that continent's reputation
for lighting before the Boers stepped
In.
Little wns doing In the railroad
man's line Just then, so lie listened.
"Well, they may lie Zulus all right
enough," he remarked, "but they are
not the sort of Zulus that travel on!
railroads. There is the kind that rung'
Into these yards," and he pointed down
the track, where a box car stood.
A stone pipe protruded through a'
hole in the door. The pipe was at au
angle of about U5 degree*. A cloud
of sinoke wns coming from It. Four
blooded horses and a man were the oc
cupants of that. The man was the
Zulu. Taking care of valuable stock
en route from one market to another
was bis business. He was a type of a
class that railroad men on every line
haev named the Zulus. They fit up the
center of the cars for a sort of living
room, and there in the midst of their
animals live as happily as the road'*
president who pnsses them In bis pri
vate car.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
Caution is often tossed to the winds,
but never brought back by them.
ABERDEEN HERALD.
WHITING BY MACHINE
EMPLOYMENT OF TYPEWRITER
YET IN ITS INFANCY.
Use Will Increase Until Every Hotel
Will Provide Them for Guesta ( an J AH
Musinea« Men Will Use Them Them
aeivcs, Not Depending Upon Others.
Bicycling was a fad, but typewriting
Is a fact. The typewriter—it, he, or
she—ls In the same claea as the tele
phone, telegraph, and linotype. As to
usefulness uud universality, typewrit
ing is in lis infancy. Thus lar it is
used only by those who cannot get
along without It. The business man
I puts in a writing machine as a luxury,
uud regards It as expense. A young
! woman who learns to use a typewriter
: feels called upon to explain that she
may have to earn her living, and she
can equip herself more quickly in this
way than in any other. A superin
tendent or principal who advocates the
introduction of typewriting Into the
! schools feels obliged to prove that It
Is due those who may have to earn a
| living.
The attitude of business men and
school people toward typewriting must
change entirely, and the time for such
j change Is already here. Where one
writing machine Is used now there will
be ten in use in the near future. The
I only trouble up to this time has been
that business men, superintendents, and
principals rarely use the machine per
sonally and advantageously. The type
writer is a servant, a helper, doing
what the proprietor would have It un
derstood that he is above doing, where
as the difficulty Is that he cannot do It.
As a Yankee, I venture the guess
that in the not-distant future the ablest
men and women in home and office. In
hotel and train will use the machine.
To-day, away from home, If one wishes
typewriting, he pays a dollar an hour
or more for the service, but soon every
first-class hotel will have all the writ
ing machines which their patronage
requires in the writing room and free
to ikl guests. Already every first-class
new hotel has a long-distance telephone
In each room and a man has Its use at
any hour of day or night at the same
rate that he would pay if he went out
and sought a "pay station." In the
same way one will be able to say when
he registers at any first-class hotel, "I
would like a room with a writing ma
chine." At first he might have
to pay fifty cents a day extra,
as he does for a room with bath
and lavatory appointments, but that
will soon pass away, as the extra
charge for the bath is going. Already
it Is appreciated that a bath is as Im
portant as a washbowl, and so the ne
cessity of the writing machine will be
early acknowledged.
In a word, the future of typewriting Is
with the schools. Teach It as uni
versally as you teach penmanship, not
for the sake of the girls who are to be
typewriters, but for the greater ad
vantage of the boys and girls who are
to be the leaders In social, business, and
professional life; not for the purpose
of helping a poor girl to be Independ
ent, but for making rich and poor alike
Independent. The time has come for a
universal and emphatic demand for the
writing machine In every upper grade
of the grammar school, and In every
high school, academy, seminary, col
lege, and university.—A. E. Wlnshlp, In
Normal Instructor.
Remarkable Plant Fount by an Ameri
can Collector in r'outh America.
What is probably the most extraordi
nary plant ever discovered has now
been found by E. A. Suverkrop of
Philadelphia, who, during trips to
South America, has for some years
been contributing to the collection of
bis friend, Prof. N. E. Brown of the
Herbarium, ICew Gardens, London.
The amazing plant which Mr. Suver
krop has now found Is an orchid that
takes a drink whenever It feels thirsty
by letting down a tube Into the water,
the tube when not In use being colleJ
up on top of the plant.
"One hot afternoon." says Mr. Suver
krop, "I sat down under some brush
wood at the side of a lagoon on the
Itlo de la Plata. Near at hand was a
forest of dead shorn trees, which had
actually been choked to death by or
chids and climbing cacti. In front of
me. and stretching over the water of
the lagoon and about a foot above it.
was a branch of one of these dead
trees. Here and there clusters of com
mon 'planta del ayre' grew on It and
a network of green cacti twined round
It.
"Among the orchids I noted one dif
ferent from the rest, the leaves, sharp,
laneehead-shnped, growing all round
the root and radiating from it. From
1 the center or axis of the plant hung a
long, slender stem about one-eighth of
an inch thick by one-fourth inch wide,
j the lower end of which was iu the
water to a depth of about four inches.
"I at ouce went over to examine my
discovery. Imagine my surprise, wheu
I I touched the plant, to see this (Center
stem gradually contract and convul
sively roll Itself up In a spiral-like roll
of tape.
"But more surprising yet was the ob
ject an l construction of this stem. 1
found on close examination and dissec
tion that it was a long, slender, flat
tube, the walls about one-thirty-second
of an Inch thick, cellular In construc
tion, open at the outer end, and con
nected at the Inner end to the root* of
a series of halr-Uke tubes.
"By subsequent observation I found
that when the plant was In want of
water this tube would gradually un
wind till It dipped Into the water. Then
It would slowly coll roufid and wind
up, carrying with It the amount of
ORCHID TAKES A DRINK.
water that that part of the tube which
hail been Immersed contained, until
when the final coll was taken the water
was dumped, as It were, direct Into
the roots of the plant. The coll re
mained In this position until the plant
required more water. Should the plant,
however, be touched while the tube In
extended, the orchid acts like the sen
sitive plant (mimosa) and the colling
action is more rapid.
"I found many of these plants, all di
rectly over the water or over where the
water had been. In the latter case It
was almost pitiful to see how this tube
would work Its way over the ground In
search of the water that was not."
TAUGHT PRESIDENT'S WIFE.
Mrs, Morgan Tel'a of He** Little Pupil
Back in 1533.
When Mrs. William McKlnley was a
very little girl, she was round-faced,
rosy-cheeked, with very loving ways.
*mm * tT ' ~ CT ►
an (1 sin l used to
work diligently lu
the first public
sclioolhouse ol Can
to n , learning to
print and read and
; spell. Little Ida
? Saxton, 5 years old,
and daughter of the
President of the
first school board
MRS. MOROAX.
of Canton, learned the alphabet ami
how to print In neat little characters
the words "cat" and "dog" and per
haps some two-syllable words from
Mrs. J. W. Morgan, of Denver. That
all happened away back In the year
1853, but Mrs. Morgan remembers the
little girl very well Indeed, "because,"
she says, "Ida was very quiet and dili
gent and lovable."
Mrs. Morgan was then Miss Splker,
and was the first teacher employed In
what were then called the union
schools. In Canton there had been
great opposition to the Introduction of
the graded schools, but Mr. Saxton,
whose daughter was to be a President's
wfe, was a staunch supporter of them,
and so firmly did he believe In the pub
lic school that just as soon as his little
daughter was old enough she was sent
to the primary school of which Miss
Splker had charge.
"Ida's futher was a wealthy citizen of
Canton and she was a very bright and
attractive child," said Mrs. Morgan.
"We never thought of her, though, as a
President's wife. I used to go to their
home; in fact, I have an invitation
somewhere to the Saxton house."
Mrs. Morgan is 76 years old, and has
lived In Denver for the last six years.
She Is a fine-looking old woman, with
something of the primness that Is sup
posed to characterize the old-time
school teacher. She married Mr. Mor
gan In .Yew Lisbon, Ohio, in 1850, and
soon afterward moved to lowa. When
they came to Colorado it was for Mrs.
Morgan's health. They reside at 015
East Thirty-first avenue and have three
grown sons.—Denver Post.
That Peck of Turnips.
She was a thin old lady, and climbed
into the car at Kingston with many
hesitating turns of the head, and when
her big black valise and other bundles
had been piled upon the sent fn front
of her, she pushed back her red-striped
shawl and looked out of the window
with an air of contentment. The train
had not proceeded many miles, how
ever, before she began to fumble
among her bundles in a nervous sort
of way, and suddenly she broke out
In a most pitiful wall;
"I knowed It! Luws a massa, whut
will I do?"
The passengers all looked sympathlz-
Ingly toward her. The kindly old man
across the aisle went over to her and
said:
"My good woman, what Is the trou
ble? Can we do anything for you?"
"Oh, man, I can't bear It! Let me off.
Stop the trnln. Stop It quick."
The old man gave the bell cord a vig
orous pull and the train came to an
abrupt halt.
"What's the matter here?' 'asked the
conductor sharply, as he came In from
the forward car.
"Why," sobbed the old lady, "I plum
forgot thet peck o' turuips I had sacked
up to take to my son John Henry In
Atlantn."—Atlanta Journal.
Discordant Custom* in Berlin.
Berlin Is probably the only city of
nuy size In which there Is absolutely
no attempt at anythiug like a general
dinner hour, or even at uniform busi
ness hours. Each circle of professions
has Its own hours of business, which
naturally regulate the household meal
arrangements. Army and otllclal cir
cles have certain hours of duty: bank
ing and commercial houses have their
own hours; writers, actors and artists
theirs, aud the university and the
schools form another set with other
hours. If you have a wide visiting list
In Berlin you may be asked out to din
ner at any time from 2 to 7. Hope
less dyspepsia Is the penalty If you do
not keep in one set.
The Cable Tussle.
We all know that Englanl tins the
monopoly of oceanic rabies, and that
Germany Is making giant strides In an
effort to overtake her rival. If France
does not hurry she will remain eter
nally the tributary of the two.—Paris
Llberte.
Elephants.
In India elephants over 12 and up to
43 years of age are deemed the best to
purchase, and will generally work well
until they are 80 years old.
United States Exporting Hardware.
The United States Is now a liberal
exporter of hardware, and buys little
In that line from the rest of the world.
There is one good thing about fried
chicken; It Is always carved read/ to
be served.
Tkie Duty
of Moiheram
What suffering frequently results
from a mother's ignorance 5 or mpre
frequently from a mother's neglect to
properly instruct her daughter 1
Tradition says "woman muit suf
fer," and young women are so taught.
There is a little truth and a great deal
of exaggeration in this. If a youjg
woman suffers severely she needs treat
ment, and her mother should see that
she gets it. ...
Many mothers hesitat» to take their
daughters to a physician for examina- .
tion : but no mother need hesitate to
write freely about her daughter or
herself to Mrs. Pinkham's Laboratory
at Lynn, Mass., and secure from •
woman the most efficient advice with
out charge.
Mrs. August Pfal*graf, of South
Byron, Wis., mother of the young lady
whose portrait we here publish, wrote
in January, 1999, saying her daughter
had suffered for two years with Irreg
ular menstruation —had headache all
the time, and pain in her tide, feet
swelled, and was generally miserable.
She received an answer promptly with
advice, and under date of March, 1899,
the mother writes again that Lydia B.
PinkUam's Vegetable Compound cured
her daughter of all pains and irregu
larity.
Nothing in the world equals Lydia &
Pinkham's great medicine for regu
lating woman's peculiar monthly
troubles.
Determination.
"It's the only toinie on earth, "said
Mr. Dolan, who was struggling with a
balky horse, "that I wisht for an otty
mobile."
"Would ye* sell the horse?"
"No, sir. I'd never give in like
that. I'd hitch the animal up in
front of the machine, and then I'd see
whether he'd go or not.'
Thouroughly a Duke.
The Duke of Richmond has the dis
tinction of being "three times a
duke." He is Duke of Richmond in
England, Duke of Lennox in Scot
land, and Due de Aubigney in
France, a title conferred upon an an
cestress by Louis XIV in 1683.
Take pictures at night at you home
—print thein at night—you can do it.
Address Kirk, Geary A Co., 330 Sut
ter St., San Francisco, for informa
tion. Largest photo supply house in
the Weßt.
For Cauic.
Yeast—Oo the robins come to pick
the bread crumbs from your lawn?
Crimsouhack—They used to, but
they don't any more.
"How do you account for that?"
"My wife makes her own bread."
Probably.
Nell—l saw Maude buying a lot of
silk stockings the other day.
Belle—Putting something by for a
rainy day,l suppose.
This signature is on every box ot the genuine
Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tnuou
the remedy that torn • «*M la ant 4ar
Already Informed.
Disappointed admirer—-Yo' kin tell
Dinah dat ef she wants dat chump
Sam Johnson she can hab him. See?
Mutual friend—He done tole her
dat hisself.
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