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Polly Fox, who six months before
had gladly left the village's ever In
creasing sisterhood of spinsters to be
come the wife of the Revet-end Mr.
Fox and mother to the little and big
Foxe*. said to her husband, as Ma
tilda, tall and trim, swung down the
village street at a puce that comes
from strength:
"It's plum scanlou* —she's got on a
short skirt an' her hair down her back
It's her birthday an' she ain’t done a
lick o' work to-day. Jen' left it all for
her mar an’ Mary. Sed she'd been
alavin’ ten year, sence she come home
from college, an' she intended havin'
a day off. They done a bad thing for
her when they sent her to college. She
got quare notions an’ has flouted ev
ery man in the village. I don’t reckon
she'll flout any more.’’
Matilda left village behind her
and plunged into a near wood. She
flung herself full length on the ground
and lay Ihete motionless. Id re had
brought her nothing of what she had
dreamed.
There was a flash of moving color
and a burst of song in the silent wood;
below, the river roared and tumbled in
Its eager seaward rush. June lay on
the wide, wonderful mountains —June,
with its glory of color. Its abundant
young life; and the June time which
live* in the souls of unwed women was
in Matilda. The June time! It revolt
ed at life and death in a country vil
lage; It scorned the spinsters with
their sharp tongues, their sagging
shoulders and sagging hips, their duil
hued lives of toll.
Suddenly Matilda got to her feet and
began heaping up the earth into a
mound; she worked industriously and
when she tossed back the heavy braid
of hair that had slipped over her shoul
der she laughed—a reckless laugh.
“It’s almost amusing." she said.
“If I were in the secret l am sure I
would agree with you.” The voice was
not far off that bad spoken the words.
Matilda turned with the air of an in
sulted p>ince«B. The short skirt, the
braided hair accentuated the youthful
look.
“This," she said, haughtily, “is a pri
vate wood,’’
“And I am on a fence," was the calm
rep4y, "and beyond is the king s high
way.”
* Matilda gave the stranger a grave
looking over hut he stood unflinch
ingly.
“The ceremony was about complet
ed.” she spoke more graciously, “the
song comes next,** She threw back her
head and eang In a clear, fresh voice.
“How tedious and tasteless the hours.”
At the end of the first line she stopped
and laughed.
-‘‘You are putting away the dolls and
playthfhga of life?” the man asked.
“I found that the dolls were sawdust
and put them away twenty-five years
ago.” This In a disdainful tone.
“What an ancient you are," said the
man.
"Yes,” humbly.
The men got down from the fence
and came over to Matilda.
“What did you bury there?” he
asked, indicating the mound.
“My youth,” she spoke defiantly.
“Ye gods!” the man burst into
laughter.
Matilda came a little nearer.
“You are a southerner and a gentle
man," she said. “I know from your
voice and your eyes. I’m celebrating.
It's my birthday. At first 1 wept. You
should have seen the glances that fol
lowed me down the street I know how
their tongues wagged when they saw
nay hair down my back; they all know
that I am thirty.”
“Well,” said the man, “what If you
are! I’ve known women of thirty
“What did you bury there?"
who were much nicer than whlte-mus
ltned, blue-ribboned, giggling girle"
“Out there, ’ with a comprehensive
sweep of her hand that took in the
, world beyond the blue circle of moun
tains; “here,” she pointed to the vll
l church spire that cut the blue
\ reach of sky, “a woman s life ends at
v tMrty, If she's unwed. She is a per
aonal grievance to every man and
pig 'woataa In the village, and as long as
IS thers’s breath In her body they feel
|«5 responsible for her and try to marry
1 i|| °®- enough when a new
ill ,n * <l 0011168 ' n to the community; it's
|jj shivery when a man*, left a widower--
18 oh, how 1 hate widowers'.” She made
|W a gesture of despair.
Iffi "You might try suicide." the man
soagoited.
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STORY PUBLISHING COMPANY
"I've thought of It,” said Matilda,
darkly.
They looked at each other. The sun
Altering through the trees flung coins
of gold at their feet.
"It’s my birthday,” the man spoke
slowly. “We might celebrate together;
we might have one last day of youth.”
A sudden wistfulness shone in Ma
tilda's eyes, but she shook her head.
“It would be the one delicious, iso
lated Impropriety of your life.”
She looked at him doubtfully.
“You've lot the band go down the
other street all your days?”
“Yes,” pensively.
“You have done the things you hate
and left undone the things you’d love
to do.”
“How did you know?” she asked.
He trampled the grave she had made
“We have had to-dav.”
—the grave that held her youth and
pointed to the water below, where a
boat rocked softly.
“Come,” he said.
Matilda moved slowly from him In
the direction of the church spire.
“The music,’’ murmured the man
Impressively, "is going down the other
street.”
"Where are we going?’’ asked Ma
tilda. She had stepped into the boat.
"To a land of mutual discovery,” he
said gayly. “It leads through winding
paths; perhaps it returns to the level;
perhaps It goes to the heights ”
Matilda’s heart had leaped to her
throat at the look he gave her. It was
a strange proceeding for so aged a
heart that had put aside all youthful
follies.
The boat moved slowly; the river
swept away Into the forest's depths.
Their laughter was the spontaneous
laughter of two who find content in
each other’s presence; their silence
held no estrangement.
A purple mist settled on the blue
mountains that belted the d'stancc;
from some near hill, a milkmaid’s call
floated. The knowls above them were
massed in bloom. A deep sweet hap
piness filled the woman's soul. It was
but Just that life out of Its fullness
should have given her this one last
day of youth.
The boat turned homeward. The
sun, a ball of fire, was dropping behind
a far mountain peak. It was dragging
her off to a dream country from which
she would wake in a shiver. Alas,
that from dreams the dreamers awake.
But the boat crept on in the perfumed
gloom the laurel crowned hills were
white. It was still a dream. A school
girl dream come true. A castle built
on lonely evenings when the wind had
shivered and the thoughts were long,
long thoughts—a castle turned to
gleaming marble.
The boat touched the landing. For
an instant the man felt the pressure of
her light weight; then she stood be
side him on the river bank.
“Good-by.” said Matilda. She held
out her hand; her eyes had a strange
sweetness —the sweetness of a Joy re
linquished at birth, laid reverently
away with her one day of youth.
“Good-by,” she faltered. “It grows
late.”
“Good-by?” the man said, puzzled.
Then he laughed down Into her eyes,
“Good-by until tomorrow."
“We have had to-day.” said Matilda.
“And will have to-morrow." The
man’s boat shot out into the stream.
Matilda climbed the hill that led to
the village—the dreary village. And
In the west where the day was fast
dying the star that comes first to the
waiting sky glowed.
The Indian and the Spectacles.
The Holton Recorder tells an amus
ing story of an Indian from the Potta
watomie Reservation who visited an
oculist In Holton to get a pair of
glasses. The oculist seated him, and
went through the usual tests with
printed cards, eliciting from his cus
tomer but little comment as he tried
on the different lenses. At last, when
the oculist was almost In despair, the
Indian pulled a couple of dice from
his pocket, threw them on the floor,
snapped his lingers as he grunted.
“Come seven!" and then smiled all
over his fat face when he found he
could distinguish the spots readily.
And the lesson seems to be that even
the unphllosophic red man has grasped
the immortal truth that the price of
success Is painstaking attention to
matter of equipment.
Adversity may prepare a man for the
life beyond, but it curtails his credit
| while hears on earth. —Chicago News.
A TOWN’S RAPID GROWTH.
KfTeet of President Visit to a
Honsos Villas*.
Mr. George Clements of Kansas City,
a well-known knight of the sample
case, is responsible for the following
story:
“Talk about the rapid growth of
cities, why, Neosho Falla, Kan., holds
the record. I think the town is still on
the map, but I won't be sure. At any
rate. I remember when the population
Jumped in one day
and the next day Jumped back again.
1 nls was merely occasioned by a fair,
and not a county fair at that, but sim
ply a little crossroads celebration. It
was Just after President Hays had been
elected. He was touring the West at
the (ime, and the citizens of Neosho
Falls secured a promise from him to
attend their fair. The town was for
tunately on the line of a railroad, with
a service of two trains a day. but when
the company learned of the President's
proposed visit a gang of workmen at
once started to lay sidings. At least
a dozen were constructed around the
little frame station, together with a Y
for the convenience of the engines.
When the great day arrived the Presi
dent was at hand, with several mem
bers of his cabinet and a military es
cort from Fort Riley. The railroad
company estimated that 40.000 people
visited Neosho Falls that day, and I
dare say some of them are talking
about It yet. The next day the visitors
were all gone, for there were no hotel
accommodations, and nothing to feed i
them with. The gang of workmen
'■aine bark and tore up the sidings and
the Y, and the town again resumed its
normal placidity, Just as though noth- i
ing had happened.”
SOME AGED ANIMALS.
Thmc Who flwva mi Kaij Life Live for
IJultv l.i'ngthr Porloil*.
In the vicinity of Paris a home for
old domestic animals was established
some time ago, and among the present
inmates are a mule 72 years old, a cow
36, and a pig 25 years old.
It is claimed that domestic animals
which lead an easy life are likely to
live far beyond the average age, 11
properly cared for. Many birds cer
tainly attain an extraordinary age.
Eagles, ravens and parrots frequently
live a hundred years and pelicans prob
ably live as long, for it is recorded
that one of these birds was placed in
the Amsterdam zoological garden some
time before 17i#2. and was still there in
1870. This pelican, too, was at least
four or five years old when it was
placed in the garden.
Eels are also long lived. Professor
Buchner tells of one, which was kept
for twenty-six years in a pond at
Thiengen, in which it was placed at
the age of eight years. It attained a
length of nearly five feet, and its fav
orite haunt was in the current that
flowed into the pond. All authorities
agree that domestic animals which aiw
obliged to do a good deal of work do
not live so long as those which lead a
placid life.
Q«i«*r A<lvertlaementa.
A general servant advertised in a
Bristol paper for a place the other day,
but required “no inquiries; no caps o*
aprons; every evening out; good
wages,” and a journalist advertised
himself as of “no particular ability’*
as a recommendation. A clerk re
cently sought a place “where greal
strength, personal appearance, or abil
ity are not required.” “Good butter,
fid a lb. Nobody can touch it,” was
ambiguous and may have been wrong
ly interpreted by the public; and a
Gloucestershire paper which inserted
the advertisement, “Our one-and
ninepenny dinner at 6:30 p. ra.
Funerals promptly attended to," apol
ogized next day for mixing up two sep
arate and distinct announcements. But
It Is a fact that a church paper ap
pealed lately for “Old man, lam \ deaf,
epileptic. Will any Christian take him
for a gardener?” ami that in a leading
Scotch journal an advertiser asked for
“£65 to pay debts incurred through
losses at betting.”
Tarquolae* Id A«i».
Turquoises are the favorite stones of
all the Mongol races, and are gener
ally worn in their original state, ex
cept by the Chinese women, who have
them roughly cut, and wear them
mixed with pearls and coral. Both
the Tibetan men and women ornament
themselves with lump turquoises, the
men wearing them attached to their
single gold earrings, which are worn
in the right ear only. The women of
(mdakh carry their fortunes on their
hands, in the shape of a broad strip
of red cloth studded with huge tur
quoises. which, starting from the fore
head. Is carried over the head, and
bauds nearly to the waist. These
peraks. as they are called, sometimes
cost as much as £2O. By the Ladakhis
those turquoises are preferred that
have little black specks on them.
Ac* or tb« Keg*
The Backer und Konditoi zeiting
gives the following method of deter
mining the age of eggs as practiced In
the markets of Paris: ‘ About six
ounces of common cooking salt Is put
into a large glass, which Is then filled
with water. When the salt Is in solu
tion an egg is dropped into the glass.
If the egg is only one day old it imme
diately sinks to the bottom; if any
older it does not reach the bottom of
the glass. If three days old it sinks
only Just below ths surface. From five
dsys upward. It floats; the older It is,
the more It protrudes out of the
water.**
He is no wiße man that will quit a
certainty tor an uncertainty.
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: ms 1 ncir : Positlvc Good to :
X Benefit ♦ Humetnity. j
By a curious natural law of compen
sation various diseases tend to prolong
life and Improve the general health.
Oouty and rheumatic persons, it is
said, have especial cause to be thank
ful. Perhaps this 1 nowledgv will help
them to be more cheerful than they
usually are at seasons of festivity.
Gout and rheumatism are exceeding
ly painful diseases, and, of course, in
some coses prove fatal, but they confer
many a blessing upon mankind; and
rheumatism particularly is well known
to doctors as a preventive of many
other diseases. It is a notorious fact
that gouty subjects generally live to a
ripe age, and albeit they suffer very
severely at times, they generally enjoy
excellentgeneral health.the very causes
of the gout keeping their blood in good
condition and making it unendurable
to many kinds of microbes.
Take half a dozen persons over the
age of seventy who suffer from rheu
matism or gout, and half a dozen oth
ers who suffer from neither, and you
will find that, axqppt for their rheuma
tism or gout, they enjoy very much
better health than the non-sufferers,
and stand a splendid chance of outliv
ing the latter. Moreover, gout and
rheumatism greatly enhance a suffer
er's chances of retaining his mental
faculties until the end. A large per
centage of centenarians who die with
MARCH OF PROGRESS DOES AWAY
WITH OLD TIME FOP.T
ii ii —n —:
FAMOUS BUILDING AT PRAIRIF DU CHIEN. WIS.. TO
v v BE TORN DOWN w- v*
Old Fort Crawford, at Prairie du
Chien, Wis., famous in the history of
the settlement of the northwest, is be
ing torn down and before many
days the last remnant of the old fort
will be destroyed. Already workmen
are tearing away the massive old walls
w'hleh long ago sheltered all who
sought refuge behind them. For a cen
tury and a half they have withstood
the ravages of time and the attacks of
the painted Indian warrior. Fort
Crawford is a relic of long ago;
around its barren ruins is grouped
more history than at any other place
in Wisconsin; it is, indeed, a thing of
history, romantic, bloody and price
less.
Even before the pickax of the first
workmen clicked against the crumb
ling masonry, there was but little left
of the famous old fort. Barren and
alone, like towering sentinels guard
ing its sacred secrets, two walls of the
fort hospital remain. The remainder
of the once imposing series of mas
sive buildings haVe been entirely de
stroyed; they lie In a weed-grown heap
of rocky ruins, like a fallen and neg
lected monument of fame. The stone
walls were fast falling to decay, but
the deep narrow windows and the bat
tle-scarred buttresses still remain.
Toward the Mississippi, which flows
past a few rods distant, is a gnarled
and stunted oak tree. It is so near the
old fort that the afternoon sun sends
its thin, sharp shadow upon the barren
walls. This alone will remain to mark
Thelr Number Constantly
There are to-day over three million
wage-earning women in the United
States, and the only place where wo
men have not as yet entered to usurp
man’s position is as an officer in the
United States army and navy, or a? a
sailor or marine. From the inventor
down to tho Idegraph messenger men
are standing aside bewildered, and in
some cases indignant, seeing their po
sition taken by a vast and increasing
number of women. The position of
the wage-earning woman to-day de
mands attention. It is true that
“fathers throw their daughters into
the industrial world on much the same
principle that they throw their boys
into the water to teach them to swim.”
And through heroic struggles the girl
Is coming to the surface and learning
the strokes.
DISASTROUS FRIENDSHIP.
Champion* of Orejrfua llhth Suffered
Very
Naturally there is much speculation
in Paris and elsewhere, as to the true
cause of the alienatiou of some of the
most prominent champions of Alfred
Dreyfus from the former wretched pris
oner of Devil’s Island. Few persons be
lieve that it was only the dismissal of
M. Cornely from the Orande Revue
that induced M. Reinach to recall the
brief in the Henry case from M.
bori, or that this affair can at all ac
count for the attitude of M. Labort, or
Lieut. Col. Picquart toward Dreyfus
and his family. That M. 1-abori was
profoundly stirred by the remark of
one of Dreyfus’ friends that he “could
not live on the ‘affaire’ for the rest of
his career,” was proved by his pub
lished letter, in which he said: “Is it
an authorised friend of the Dreyfus
family who publicly uses such lan
guage? Yet he knows that on the eve
of those events I occupied an honor
able position at the Palais, that when
1 became counsel for Alfred Dreyfus,
briefs flew away from me on the wind
of the storm, and that I only recovered
my business after the amnesty, against
which, although it was against my ta-
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Wage-Earning Women
all their wits about them, and with ex
cellent memories of the days of their
youth, have suffered for many years
from rheumatism, and been particular
ly free from other diseases.
The loss of a leg or an arm is also
said to do you good in the long run. It
certainly seems that when a man Is
deprived of a leg or an arm, the vital
ity and vigor of the lost member re
main with him to increase the vitality
of the remainder.
Numbers of elderly persons In more
or less feeble health are kept alive by
coughs, such, for instance, aa bron
chitis. Chronic coughs are peculiarly
common to old people, and hundreds
who complain of the distress caused
them by such affections are really In
debted to their coughs for their length
of life. The reason of this is that
most elderly persons suffer with weak
heiuts and feeble circulation of the
blood, and weak hearts become weaker
and weaker merely as a result of their
weakness. A constant cough corrects
this, keeps the heart boating more
strongly than it otherwise would, and
the strong heart beat keeps the blood
circulating more quickly, and the vital
organs are thus kept in a state of
activity which could only be main
tained by artificial means and for a
limited time but for the troublesome
cough.
the spot where at one time many of the
most famous soldiers of the American
army fought.
• To the lover of the historic and ro
mantic there is something cruel about
the destruction of the remains of old
Fort Crawford. To the residents of
Prairie dn Chien, who for years have
seen and thought little of the past of
the dilapidated old walls, it is a bard,
cold business proposition. They see no
reason why sentiment should retard
the progress of their city. They can
see nothing to be gained in the pres
ence of the staring sentinels of stone.
But a few rods north from the site
of the fort, hidden from the casual
glance by the thick growth of rank
weeds, and made more obscure by the
presence of broken down fences, is
the old federal cemetery. There is no
hand to strew flowers upon the graves
of the heroes whose remains lie there.
It is a place of mysterious surroundings
and is avoided and shunned. Though
upon the age-worn granite tablets th«
epigraphs of many whose names arw
inserted in living letters upon the
pages of history are carved in crude
broken letters, there is none to notice
them nor to give them a passing
thought.
The massive old fort proper has long
since been torn down and upon Its site
now stands the beautiful St. Mary's
academy. Where the report of the sen
try’s gun once startled the wilderness
now Is h»ard the peaceful tones of the
convent bell.
ncreasing in the United States
In order to become a wage-earner in
the city the girl must have some sort
of preparation and experience. This
means if she is to learn her trade
she must practically give a year of her
time and work without wages, al
though her brothei at the very outset
earns something even as an apprentice
and is advanced according to his abil
ity.
The wage-earning woman and her
problem has accomplished two things;
she has formed a mutual bond between
women or leisure and women of labor,
and she has also opened the eyes of
philanthn/plsts to the fact that the In
dustrial problem of women is at the
bottom of the moral problem, with the
result that the Rescue Homes for
Women are being supplanted by homes
for wage working women.
tcrests to do so. I struggled incessant
ly.” Nor are M. Uibori and CoL Pic
quart the only malcontents. M. Ibels
the artist, who did yeoman's work for
Dreyfus in the old days, with his biting
caricatures, says in a letter to the
Libre Parole: "I am not the only one
to perceive that the great and splendid
affair of humanity was nothing but a
dirty commercial and political deal fa
cilitating for the Jews the conquest of
power and the cornering of markets.”
Igiter on, in an interview M. Ibels re
marked: "Among the Dreyfusarde, as
we were called, there were honest per
sons. such as Zola, 1-abori, CTemenceau,
Picquart. myself and others. Poor, hon
est people and simpletons that we
were. How we have been done, and
how wo have been dropped once the
peril over. How we have had to pay for
our independence of character and dis
interestedness. I have seen laibori cry
and not so long ago. Ho shed tears In
telling me how he suffered, and how
heartbroken he was. Col Picquart also
Is heartbroken. He will have a lot to
say. He remains on one aide, sacrificed
like us. Zola has lost his cross. Pi#,
quart his rank, Laborl his practice, and
I the right to earn my living.”—Mew
York Post
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concerning the wonderful medicine.” Mrs. Mary
Fox, Seymour, Iowa: Miss Viola Dcnring, Peters
burg, lnd.; Mrs. Jas.Young Kent, Ohio; and many
other ladies Join in testifying to the wonderful
curative powers of Alkavis in various forms of
Kidney and allied diseases, and in other disorders
peculiar to womanhood.
That you may judge of the value of this Great
Discovery for yourself, we will send you one Large
Case by mail Free, only asking that when cured
yurself you will recommend it to others. It is a
Mure Specific and can not fail. Address, The
Church Kidney Cure Company, No. 406 Fourth
Avenue, New Yerk.
THE COMTENTED FARMER
lx the. man whe never has a failure tn crops.
gets splendid returns for his labors, and has
«MinMrangp)*nbest social and rellg-
PVt f*~ lious advantages, to
liV> o|w Igcther with splendid
Iclimate anil excellent
I C | health. These we give
IrTfd to the settlers on the
I IWPI of Western Can
-1 W .via, vrhtob comprises
I TaiBIBMMIMBIHu great grain and
ranching lands of Manitoba, Aasnlboia, Alberta
and Saskatchewan. Exceptional advantages
and low ratea of fare are given to those desir
ous of inspecting the fall grant lands. Tha
handsome forty page Atlas of Western Can
ada sent free to mil applicants. Apply to F.
Pedlsy, Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa,
Canada, or to W. H. Rogers, Canadian Govern
meat Agent, Box 116 Watertown, S. U
By the way, there is lots of
money to be made on ear
liest cabbage, beets peas,
radishes, cucumber-, and the
ltke.
For lie. sod this Nntlr*
the John A. Salser S< ed Co.,
LaCrosse, Wl*.. will send
you their mammoth catalog
She Ws* Hopeful.