The Hayti herald., February 11, 1909, Image 2

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sidewalk to wash
THEY were the
neatest ladles on
the entire street,
Miss Luclndn
Horry and her sis
ter Alice, and they
subsisted meager
ly on a small pen
sion that had been
their late father's.
In the same
block lived the
idlest, slouchiest
and most irritable
bachelor in the
city.
In February,
when an unexpect
ed mildness sot in,
the hose on her
away the- ashos.
All night long, however, the wind rose,
and the fourteenth of February dawned
bitter cold, and tho water used for
washing off the ashes froze.
Miss Lucinda was in tho kitchen
sifting a.shes to rosprinklo the pave
ment, when she heard her sister
shriek, l.ucinda rushed to open the
front door, r.nd saw Alice on her
knees in the street supporting tho
husky shoulders of Williams, who was
shouting lustily: "This is your work!
Nice, isn't it? Always know your con
founded neatness would cost me my
life."
Alice could only sob in reply.
"I'll sue you for this, all right," he
bellowed.
IJy this time Lucinda had ap
proached, and now spoke authoritative
ly: "Well, it is plain you must be
carried into your house and a doctor
sent for at once." Hockoning to tho
bachelor's man servant, who hovered
near, she instructed him how to assist
tho injured man without causing un
necessary pain
When Williams had been laid on a
disordered bed, Miss Lucinda mado
Jiim as comfortable as possible before
the arrival of tho doctor. Tho Berry
girls set to work preparing bandages.
The doctor camo, set the arm, ex
pressed approval of all that had been
done, and loft,
Williams heard this commendation
of the maiden sisters, and after some
thought said:
"If you bring mo through without
crippling me, I will let you off as light
ly as possible."
This unexpected generosity over
joyed the ladles. They took their reg
ular turns, and tho negro sorvnnt rued
Mm day when they invaded his
slouchy kingdom. Though the in
jured bachelor could not know of all
the changes taking place, still he fell
the influence of orderly domesticity.
They really enjoyed the nursing
and their patient particularly appio
ciatcd having Miss Alice near, for hei
touch was delightfully soft. So, even
when the physician came, it was Miss
Alice who bandaged the arm after il
was diessed.
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When able to be around again II
was difficult to break an acquired
habit, so it happened that Mr. Wll
Hams went over morning and evening
for Miss Alice to attend to ids arm.
One morning ho did not come; in
stead the servant appeared with a note
for Miss Alice, who read it witfc
alarm:
"I shall call this evening to sue foi
my damages. If it is not rendered me
1 am afraid I mustproceed to extreme
measures."
Miss Alice cried the better part oi
tho day after tho receipt of tho note,
and Miss Lucinda for once was not
practical, so cried some also,
At seven that evening the door boll
rang and Miss Lucinda admitted Mr.
Williams and showed him into the par
lor where Alice sat, openly tearful.
"Take a seat," she whispered.
lie sat down facing her, and took
her limp hand.
"Bless my soul," ho cried; "what's
tho matter?"
"Nothing," she exclaimed, and burst
into sobs.
"1 wish you'd cry for mo," said tho
bachelor huskily.
"Oh," she moaned, "wo can't pay
those damages, Mr. Williams."
"Well, if you can't," said ho, "can
you do something else? Can you ac
cept the worn-out old valentine that
was thrown at jour gate about a
month ago? Not worth picking up,
pot Imps, old-fashioned and full of
Haws, but a. most loving valentine."
With her cheek against the band
aged arm, Miss Alice cried some mora
but there weie smiles shining
through.
HERE was a vein of
strong and true ro
mance in tho make
up of tho man Lin
coln, as there has
been no matter
how dcop-hid In
tho natures of most
men who have made history, writes
Fullerton L. Waldo in tho Philadel
phia Lodger. Listen to his own story
of tho first awakenings of tho len
der sentiment it is very like tho
dream of Kipling's Brushwood Boy,
except In the non-fulfillment:
"When I was a little codger (In tho
log-cabin Indiana days), one day a
wagon with a lady and two girls and
a man broke down near us, and while
they were fixing up they cooked In our
kitchen. The woman had hooks and
read us stories, and they were tho
first I had ever hoard. I took a great
fancy to one of tho girls, and when
they wore gone I thought of her a
great deal, and one day, when I was
sitting out in the sun by the house, I
wrote out a story in my mind. I
thought I took my father's horse and
followed the wagon, and finally I
found it, and they were surprised to
see me. 1 talked with the girl and
persuaded her to elope with me, and
that night I put her on my horse, and
we started off across the prairie. After
several hours we came to a camp and
wo found it was t lie one we had left
a few hours before, and we wont in.
The next night we tried again, and
tho same tiling happened the horse
came back to the same place, and then
we concluded wo ought not to olopo.
I stayed until I had persuaded her fa
ther to give her to me. 1 always
meant to wiite that story out and
ing and ngrcod to become his wife.
She must have realized tho promise
In him which others disbelieved or
descried but dimly, for she felt her
need of a better education, that she
might bo a more suitable helpmeet for
him. So il was arranged that while
Abraham went to Springfield for tho
legislative session and to study law she
should go to Jacksonville, 111., and
spend tho winipr In an academy there.
In the following spting they were to
bo married.
Spring came, but the apple blos
soms and tho roses wore laid upon her
grave.
The doctors said Ann Rutlodgo died
of brain fever, and doubtless they
were right. It iway have boon due to
her pathetic, eager desire to learn
enough to bo the wife of tho future
statesman that she saw in tho over
grown and awkward clerk of the coun
try store.
A year or so later Lincoln became
involved in a singular embarrassment.
A girl named Mary Owens came to
New Salem to visit her sister, Mrs.
Able, and spent four weeks. Lincoln
mot her, and liked her for her steady
and well-balanced character, her evi
dent domesticity, and, neither last nor
least, her prepossessing appearance.
After she went he jestingly told Mrs.
Able that if she would bring her sis
tor back ho would marry her. Mrs.
Able ropoited the conversation, and
Mary Owens accepted Lincoln's of
fer as being seriously intended.
Lincoln was in a dreadful predica
ment. Go back upon his word lie
would not, even if it meant lifelong
misery for him. Mary Owens was a
year older than he, and when he met
her again she scorned to have lost
But Cured After Doctors Said Then
Wan No Hope.
Sylvanus 0. Verrill, Milford, Mo,
says: "Five years ago a bad injury
paralyzed mo and
affected my kid
neys. My back hurt
mo terribly, and
tho urlno was bad
ly disordered. Doc
tors said my right
kidney was practi
cally dead. They
said T could uni'or
fi' fit,'
" walk ncnln. T ronrl
of Doan's Kidney Pills and began us
ing them. One box mado mo stronger
and freer from pain. I kept on using
them and in throe months was able to
got out on crutches, and the kidneys
woro acting bettor. I Improved rap
Idly, discarded tho crutches aruj to
tho wonder of my friends was soon
complete!' cured."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Fostor-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
HE ALMOST REMEMBERED IT.
Boy at Least Had Combination Some
where Near Right.
Donald had icturned from a visit
to the country, and was full of rem
iniscences of persons and things that
had interested him. "I met a bo;i
mamma," lie said, "that had the quee
est name I over heard. He said hil
folks found it in the Old Testament
It was it was let me see yes, 1
was Father William, or William Fa
thor; I've forgotten just now which.
But it was one or the other."
"But, Donald," said his mother,
"there is no such name as Father Wil
liam or William Father in the Old
Ttcstament."
"Are you sure, mamma?"
"I certainly am, dear. I have road
it through several times. William is a
comparatively modern name. It isn't
anywhere in the Bible."
"Well, but oh, I remember now!"
exclaimed Donald. "It was Blldad!"
Youth's Companion.
CHILD HAD SIXTY BOILS,
And Suffered Annually with a Red
Scald-Like Humor on Her Head.
Troubles Cured by Cuticura.
Earliest portrait of Lincoln.
Daguerreotype taken about
the time of his marriage.
Mary Todd Lincoln, from a
photograph made about J86J.
Two Valentines.
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publish it, and I began once, but 1 con
cluded that it was not much of a story.
But I think that was the beginning of
love with mo."
Tho KIiib sent Jewels dazzling rare
Unto tho royal Princess fair.
Without a smile or pralso of Rem,
Slio Imilo licr innlil re-cover them.
The. deep blue, eyes Brew wistful, dim;
Tho Princess dreamt of one of lilm
Nay, not the KIiir or titled kin,
Dut of whom to think 'twere sin.
A simple couplet, sweet nud truo.
On card entwined with ribbons bluo,
Unto his ltihs the plowboy Bent;
Far. far into the nlKlit bho bout,
In happiness to lead apatu
Tho poet's IqvIiir, tender strain:
AKiiln, URiiIn, sho kissed each line,
Kudi letter of her valentine.
Kathleen Kavanagli,
"When my little Vivian was about
six months old her head broke out in
boils. Sho had about sixty in all and
I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment which cured her entirely.
Some time later a humor broke out be
hind her ears and spicad up on to
her head until it was nearly half cov
ered. The humor looked like a scald,
very red with a sticky, clear fluid com-
ing from it. This occurred every 1
and Ointment which never failed to
heal it up. Tho last time it broke
out it became so bad that I was dis
couraged. But I continued tho use of
Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resol
vent until she was well and has never
been troubled in tho last two years.
Mrs. M. A. Schworin, 071 Spring Wells
Ave., Detroit, Mich., Feb. 24, 1908."
Potter Drug & Cticm. Corp., Solo I'rops., Boston.
ALL OF ONE KIND.
Well! Weill
It sooms to make some peoplo poal
lively angry if ono insinuates that this
world is not wholly a wllderncpa of
woo. Nashville American.
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When "Abe" was 22 years old ho be
came clerk in the store of Denton
Offutt, at Now Salem, hid. It was a
general store, and his employment
was various. Presently ho was mado
postmaster, and carried letters (for
tho sparse population of a couple of
hundred), in his hat, and hungrily
read every one of their nowspapors
before ho let them go. Ho also found
employment as deputy county survey
or. Ho hoarded at tho tavern of ono
James Rutlodge, grandson of a signer
of tho declaration, and there ho mot
and foil head over heels in love with
the beautiful, blue-eyed Ann Itutledgo.
Ann Rutlodgo had heon engaged to
a prosperous young farmer, .lolin Mc
Neill by name, but John McNeill hart
"hoard the cast a-callin'," and had
gone thither upon business bent, prom
ising to come back und reclaim her as
his brido. Ills letters, at first frequent
and ardent, became non-committal and
occasional, and finally there were no
tnoro of Mr. McNeill's missives for
Postmaster Lincoln to hand to Ann
from tho crown of his hat, Sho still
was faithful to McNeill's memory. For
a long timo sho would not listen to a
word of love from the newcomer. But
It was tho old story of "first endure,
then pity, then embrace."
"Abo" likewise felt sorry for the
lilted Ann, and longed to bo able to
somfort lior with his sympathy. Thoy
were thrown together three times a
day at meals, and presently she let
him sit with her on tho stops, and that
ted to long rambles through tho coun
try roundabout. When at last she waa
convinced that McNeill was never
coming back to her. Ann Rutlcdgo
yloUled to Lincoln's Impassioned plead-
most of her good looks. ITo wrote to
her. "I am afraid you would not be
satisfied," lie said, "you would have
to be poor without the means of hid
ing your poverty. What I have said
I will most positively abide by, pro
vided you wisli it. My opinion is that
you had better not do it. You have
not been accustomed to hardship, and
it may bo more severe than you now
Imagine. 1 know you are capable of
thinking correctly on any subject, and
it' you deliberate maturely upon tills
before- you decide, then I am willing
to abide by your decision."
Tills did not sound in Miss Owens'
cars like the ardent protestation of
truo love. She wrote back and gave
him a piece of her mind, saying that
lie was "deficient In those little links
which go to make up a woman's hap
piness." Lincoln, not a little relieved, accept
ed this rejoinder as the conclusion
of tho matter and wrote- to Mrs,
Browning: "I havo now como to tho
conclusion never again to think of
marrying."
About a year later a high-spirited
and fascinating Kentucky girl, 21
years old, Mary Todd tho sister of
a Mrs. Edwards, at whoso hotiso Lin
coln was a frequent visitor was tho
cause of a broken resolution. Stephen
A. Douglas was among Lincoln's ri
vals for the hand of tho beautiful
southron, but Lincoln won out in this
his first debate against tho "Httlo gi
ant," and in a twelvemonth from tho
time that he first met lior Lincoln was
engaged to be married to Mary Todd
and on November 4, 1842, thoy wero
married by tho Uov. Charles Dresser,
at tho house 'of Mary's brother-in-law,
Nlnian W. Edwards, who had been
bitterly opposed from the start to tho
"Havo your poems been read by
many people?"
"Certainly about twenty publishers
that I know of."
Criminality of Waste. ,
If I wanted to train a child to bw
thrifty I should teacli him to abho'
waste. I do not mean wasto of)'
money; that cures itself, because very
soon there is no money to wasto butt
wasto of material, waste of somethings
that is useful but that you cannot rop-V,
resent in money valuo to tho waster.
There is wasto of water, wasto of gas
and things of that kind. If you would
wish your children to bo thrifty I
would beg to Impress upon them tho
criminality of waste. Lord Rosobery,
In an Edinburgh Address.
Directed toward tho enjoyment of
the senses, tho strong will may bo a
domon, and tho intellect merely its de
based slave; btft directed toward good,
tho strong will Is king, and tho Intel-'
lect Is then tho minister of man's high- ,
est well-being.
For Colda and Grlpp Capudlne.
The best remedy for Grlpp and Colds la
Hlcka' Capudino, Holluves tho aching and
foverlshness. Cures tho cold Headaches
also, lt'n Liquid Uffects Immediately JO,
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It takes a lot of nerve to enable a
alliance on tho ground of Lincoln's young married man to entor a storif
church-mouse poverty. i and purchase a dozen safoty plus frorja
1 a former sweetheart. !
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