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' A SMALL BOY'S PLAINT. When the blizzard is blowing outside in the street I have to stay here in the house, Ibave to sit quiet the whole of the time, as ; %Lll as little brown mouse, . . They Won't let me tease my small brother at all, or play with my small sister’s things, And mamma’s not pleased if I snoop in her room and set up a store with her rings. And daddy gets mad as a crazy March hare when I cut pictures out of his books. I cannot go downin the kitchen to stay because we've the crossest of cooks. . The waitress don't like it if by some mischance I upset the cranberry pie. : On blizzardy days thére isn't a boy so unhappy and tired as I. 7 The dog he snaps at me if I pull his tail, and ‘ pussy she sératches my hand If I put her aboard the plano and play she's the head of a musical band. The baby he eries if I poke at his eyes, and his nurse drives me out of the place, i And tells me that all through the rest of the dayshe don't want a sight of my face. I wish it would clear, for I want to go out; I cannot stay quiet and still. T I'm so full of moviness all of the time that siti ting down makes me feel ill. I cannot do anything—no not a thing—l can't say I will or I won't; I ¥ cannot go out and I cannot stay in when \ there's nothing to do but to don't. —Harper’'s Bazar.

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window and clasped her hands on the ill and rested her little dark head on hzr arms. v ! i Sh? had never been in the habit of praying, and she did not pray now. Buther thoughts ran on wildly: *‘Nobody loves me; they just want me to ‘stay and work for them all my life. They don’t want me to marry Jim because they want me to work for them. Itis nothing else in the world —nothing else. And Jim loves me.! There was an agony of bitterness in the girl’'s soul. In doubting her parents, the foundations of the world were set astray. It was not the first time that they had set themselves in opposition to her wishes,-but it was the first time that she” had doubted their disinterestedness, their veracity, their motives. In the desolation of her sorrow the familiar world became a 4 wilderness in which she lost her way. ' Sometimes™in the midst of our despair the thought comes: ‘lt is not hopélass. After all, it lies in your own hands. Only a little effort, a little ceurage.” :

The girl rose. “I can do it,” she whispered. -“I can.” Without hesita-{ tion she turned to the door, opened it | and stepped into the darkness of the passage: There she stopped. | They were still talking downstairs. “Ef 'twere any but a’ Slocum,” she heard her mother’s voice, plaintive and | rasping. ‘‘But they’re a shiftless lot—the hull on. ’em. There just ain’t mno good into ‘em.” : : ' Carry drew in her breath. She ran down the short flight of stairs and threwopen the kitchen door. A silence. followed her sudden entrance. Her mother glanced at her furtively; her father half turned, uneasily, and 'began filling his pipe. ' - The girl looked at them both with devouring scorn. She was very small and slight, but she had beautiful eyes and a deep curved little mouth that set itself proudly. The mother’s sad, patient face seemed fairly to wither under the vindictive enger of her daughter’s glance. She had been beautiful, too, once, and young and in love.. Now she was broken and faded—fairly a mnonentity before this youthful vision of passion and resolve. | '

The baby in her arms began to cry fretfully. The children quarreling in the corner had stopped and were regarding Carry curiously. The girl’s breast heaved. She pressed her hands upon it. ‘I am going to marry Jim Slocum,” she said. ‘‘We are going over to Barn}on to-night to get married.” . Her father dropped his pipe to the floor. : “You shet up, and get away from here,” he said, with an oath. In his’ passion his nose seemed to grow larger and redder; his little contracted forehead was a mass of wrinkles. He was a contemptible object; but Carry's glance was a shade less scornful as she looked at him. She could feel a faint respect for anyone who had courage to swear at her, to defy her. e © “] am going upstairs to get ready,” ‘she said, turning. Her mother’s voice, shrill 'in wild, weak crying, followed her as she went. When she came down again she had on her best fawn-colored dress. and her small white hat trimmed by herself with towering ribbons. ' Her mother had put down- the baby (it was screaming in the cradle) and was rocking herself to and fro, her face hidden in her hands. Her father was standing in a waiting attitude, and as she came in he turned to her. “Now, Carry,” he said, in conciliatory tones, ‘you’re a girl that’s allus had lots done for you. You ain’t got ‘no call to act this way. Now I'll tell you; if you won’t marry Jim Slocum I'll give you a hundred dollars to have for your very own (I've got a’'most that in the bank now), or I’ll buy you an organ and some new dresses. Now,ain’t that fair? You give up suthin’ for us, and we do suthin’ for you. There ain’t no call for you to act foolish.” Carry looked at him. ; ! . “I'm- going to marry Jim Slocum,” she said, moving toward the door. Her mother sprang from the chair, and cast herself at the girl’'s feet and clasped her round the waist. s “Oh. Cairy,” she wailed, “‘don’t leave us this way! Don’t go for to marry one 0’ them Slocums! Don’t go to-night! Think what folks'll say. O-o-oh}” "The Hdeguoi Carry’s father began to gleam. He stooped to his wife and caught her roughly from the door. ; “%ywm.” he said. ‘‘Can’t you see she don’t care nuthin’ about us? ~ Carry staggered slightly when her akiedeok. [ RER S S a chony anid Wlamn

The whippoorwills were chanting their old, old warning. Who, in moments of willful decision, of deliberate sinning, has not felt the sweet agony of their song to be an arresting voice, a recall, an agonized effort to save? :

‘Carry did not notice them. She was running swiftly, noiselessly, down the path that led across the fields to the Slocums’ house. The strangeness of’everything overwhelmed her. Now and then she was shaken with a hard sob. It was not remorse that she felt. It was only, in her childish selfish scul, a vague terrible premonition of what remorse might be. - ; Out in the backyard of the Slocums’ house Jim leaned on the fence and listened to the whippoorwills. The house was near the big swamp, and the air was full of rich, stifling scents. There was a glamour of romance and mystery about the familiar fields. The glory of the summer night filled him with subtle pain. He was thinking of Carry—not wildly, not passionately; he had a lover’s tenderness without a lover’s impatience. He was too easygoing, too lazy, to protest very wildly fgainst anything. . L

v ‘I guess we’ll wait awhile. 1 guess they’?l come round after awhile,” he had said to Carry when they parted the night before. . But Carry knew better. Waiting for her parents .to ‘‘come round” was worse than useless. She was afraid (though she would rather have killed herself than admit such a thing) that with waiting Jim’s love would cool. Jim leaned cn 'the fence in the moonlight. His eyes held a gleumn of ex.pression in the depths of their almost oriental calm. ‘The vague pain that oppressed him grew stronger. ‘I wisht I could see Cairy,” he muttered. As if in answer, a small -figure, running swiftly, outlined itself against the silver-white of the fields. Jim gazed blankly at the slim, dark shape; then he got himself over the

"HEY were talking downstairs. Out side, the whippoorwills chanted persistently. The little room was "bathed in moonlight. Caroline knelt by the

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fence, in some fashion, and ran to meet her. .‘ Half an hour later the Slocums! old horse,-drawing the Slocums’ old buggy, plugged softly through the sand on the road to Barnton. z The whippoorwills were singing, and the little room was bathed in moonlight. Caroline, ‘kneeling by the window, bowed her head on her arms and remained motionless. She was thinking of the last time she had knelt there. Downstairs they were talking. She could hear Jim's drawling voice and her father’s laugh, and, now and then, her mother’s soft, dragging footsteps as she moved about. The last sound wrung her breast.. Her poor mother! All the long companionable hours they had spent -together in the busy household life rushed upon the girl’s memory. She had left this dear little niche in life, had forfeited her right to it, and for what? What was Jim? What did she care for him? Slow, lazy, stupid, like all the rest of the Slocums. - The door at the foot of the stairs opened. Syl “Cairy,” her mether called, !‘ain’t you got your hair fixed yet? Jim’s ready to go home.” Ll e The girl bent herself backward, and looked up at the twinkling stars piteously. Yet who shall pity her? She had desired greatly, and her desire had been fulfilled. Surely that is semething,in a world of disappointment and defeat. —Lippincott’s Magazine. |

Turkish Rugs. 5 Although some may look upon Turkish rugs as an expensive luxury, they are in the end an economy,“considering their durability and increasing market value, and rugs, like diamonds, can always be disposed of for. first or added values. In buying the way to discriminate between genuine and imitation vriental carpets is to exarnine curefully whether each stitch is knotted and impossible to pull out. If it is perfectly firm you may be assured that it is genuine Turkish, but if it can be pulled out it is an Imitation. no matter how closely it may resemble the genuine rugs in color or pattern. The manner of testing the quality of the rug by connoisseurs is as follows: Drop a coal or a burning match on the corner of the rug. "Allow it to burn for a moment and remove, when you will find a yellowish mark.’ Brush this off with the fingers, and if it entirely disappears, leaving the original colors unaltered, you may rest-assured that the coloring and quality are all that can be desired. The Turks treat their rugs with much more respect than we do. They never think of stepping upon the rugs with their shoes, and it is owing to this fact that antique rugs, embodying years of artistic work and skill, remain in perfect condition after having been used in the harem or mosque from generation to generation:—Chicago Inter Ocean. . | :

Rare Coin. | : X , a poor Parisian ‘‘bohemian,” who lives from hand to mouth, but manages to kqgw up a somewhat distinguished appearance, was looking earnestly, in a public place, at a five-franc piece, of which, by some extraordinary piece of luck, he had become possessed. A gentleman at once stepped up to him and addressed him politely. ‘ ‘‘Pardon me, sir,” said the stranger, ‘“‘bat I am a collector of coins, and your movements suggests that possibly you have a rare one.” “I have, sir,” said X. iy - YWill you let me look at it?” “With pleasure.” The stranger inspected with aston-. ishment X.'s five-franc piece. ‘“But pray, sir,” he asked, ‘‘do you consider this a rare coin?” i “*Certainly,” answered X.; “with me ‘all coins are rare.”—Youth’s Companion. : / - Gt 3 i —The Order of the Lmpire of India ‘was one of Beaconsfield’s ideas to con pliment Queen Vietoris. It was founi [Man,

FARM AND GARDEN. ! THE PLEBEIAN PEANUT. 1t Plays a Usefu! Part in the Economy of | ~ Man and Beast. . The plebeian peanut, which rejoices in such other homely names as earthnut, groundnut, ground pea, goober and pindar/has assumed a new dignity, bhaving recently been honored as the subject of a special report by one of the experiment officers of the national department of agriculture. The report corrects some prevalent mistakes as to this little'article of consumption, gives astonishing statistics as to its value as a food product, and presents many interesting facts as to its uses. : . 1t is pleasant to be informed, first of all, that the peanut is not a nut at all, but a pea, and that its shell is not a shell, buta pod. Itisalsowell toknow that while cotton, Indian corn, potatoes and tobacco have usually been considered the four plants of commercial importance which America has given to the world, the peanut must be added, as the weight of authority fixes its birthplace in Brazil. The crop has become of. primary importance since 1866, and Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee produce the largest part of it. There are seven varietiescultivated, some of them bunch and some running vines. The yield of this underground péa is astonishing, and the amount consnmed is a testimonial to its popularity. The yearly production :here is algput 4,000,000 bushels of 22 pounds, which supply the present demand in this country. This, however, is but a small portion of the world’s crop. The exportation from Africa and 'lndia to Europe in 1892

amointed to nearly 400,000,000 pounds. The crop of the world may besafely estimated at 600,000,000 pounds. The value of the homely little ground pea, however, becomes especially apparent when its uses are considered. It is sorted in the factory into four grades, the first, second and third be-. ing sold to venders of the roasted peanut, either directly or through jobbing houses. The: fourth grade is sold to confectioners, and after their manipulation reappears as peanut candy, burnt almonds and in cheaper grades of chocolates. The report says in this connection: ‘‘The extent of the use of the peanut by the American people } will be more fully appreciated when it is remembered that they use 4,000,000 | bushels of nuts yearly (at a cost to the ' consumers of $10,000,000), which do not form a part of the regular articles of food but are eaten at odd times.” The t planter uses the nut as a fattener for his ‘hogs and the vine as peanut hay for his stock, and the feeding value is in- ! creased when some of the nuts are cured and fed with the hay. Millions tnof bushels are used in the old world for the production of oil, which is g regarded as equal to olive oil. In fact, . great quantities are used, unknown to ' the consumer, instead of the latter, - Marseilles. alone taking 220,000,000 'pounds a year for the¢ making of al- | leged olive oil. In India, Europe, Brazil and this country the oil is used medicinally. Itis employed by manufacturers in fulling cloth. It makes a ‘ good ‘lighting fluid, and is /largely used by the manufacturers of soap and as a lubricant in machine shops. The oil cake is used in Germany for fattening cattle and sheep. Itis pronounced an excellent cattle food. A grade known as ‘‘peanut meal” is ~made by grinding the hulls, immature peanuts, and-those of inferior grades | and a certain quantity of sound nuts mixed with other ingredients. ' The residue, known as ‘peanut cake,” makes good soup, griddle cakes, muf- | fins, etc., and is one of the most nutri- | tive foods for human as well as animal. lconsumptiqn. The report says: ‘‘Although the experiment made with pea- ! nut meal and biscuits as food for the | German army was not so successful as | to induce the authorities to adopt it as | & part of the rations, still analysis has shown conclusively that it is a most nourishing food for man, and as com- ' pared with other well-known forms of vegetable and animal food it has a ihigh nutritive value.” TFrom all of l which it appears that this little nut or | pea, whieh hitherto has been looked l_down upon as the stock in trade of the street corner vender, the food of the ! gallery god, and the luxury of the cir- | cus, has other and higher uses and is | one of the important staples of comni merce and plays a dignified and useful | part in the economy of man and beast. - —Chicago Tribune. :

TIGHTENING FENCES. A Pennsylvanian’s Eausy Way of Drawing 4 Wires Taut. Wire fences arc frequently difficult to tighten. Edwin G. Walker, of Butler county, Pa., sends the plan below, which he uses successfully. Seta post, a, in the fence line of any desired length and stretch as ‘many strands

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of wire as wanted. Unreel the strands to within a toot of the post and fasten securely to a 2x4 scantling (b). Two long bolts, ¢, ¢, ‘of 214 feet or thereabouts, with long threads and burrs, are placed through the center of the post. The scantling may be kept in place by resting on blocks. After the strands are securely fastencd to the scantlings, with a wrench twist the bolt and draw the wires tight. Two sections may thus. be tightened at the same 'time, but numerous sections cannot be tightened as readily, as the strain is takken up along the line and the tension equally distributed unless tightened sections are held and then nailed.—¥Farm and Home.

_Perniclous and Unsound. : The road tax system of personal service and computation is unsound as a principle, unjust in its operations, wasteful in its pragtice, and most unsatisfactory in its results.- Minneape lis (Minn.) Journal. g ;

- STANCHIONS FOR COWS. | Making Dairy Animals Comfortable and Keeping Them Clean. ; - Clean cows and comfortable cows—the two factors go together in making the dairy business profitable. I have worked hard to keep cows clean in their stalls, but could never succeed until I had them hitched on a platform at least eight inches -above the bottom of the gutter, and arranged so that their hind feet would come just at the rear edge of the platform. Then no manuré falls upon the platform and the cow isalways dry and clean. It requires some skill, however, to so arrange the cows as to stanchions, or ties, that they will stand mnaturally, and for most ‘of the time, with their hind feet just at the rear edge of the platform. The upright stanchions will accomplish this, and where they are made to swing from side to side they allow considerable freedom of move-

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ment to the cows, but at the best they ' dare not wholly comfortable, and to do her best a dairy cow must at all times l be comfortable. There isanother plan which is shown in the accompanying' illustration. The cows are hitched | with chains that slide up and downl upon a rod, two cows ‘in each wide stall, or one in a narrow stall as preferred. Thereis a solid. partitioni between the stalls?® and the cribs, a hinged door admitting the he:adi of each cow to her crib at feeding time. When the ration has been eaten the doors are closed and buttoned, which forces the cows to stand back until their hind feet come to the edge of the gutter, and to lie down also in that situation. When the doors are closed any manure that has fallen upon the platform while -the cows have been standing ahead feeding is scraped into the gutter, and the cows left until.the next feeding. : .. Where the manure cellar is under the cattle it will be found most convenient to have the manure trapsin the raised walk, as shown, rather than in the bottom of the gutter, where they are buried beneath the manure and filthy to handle. Handy shelves that are hinged and folded agaiast the wall when not in use are shown at the’ rear of the raised walk. The -doors admitting the cows’ heads to the cribs in front will be. found exceedingly convenient when feeding grain, roots. or ensilage. Omne can then put the ration in the crib without molestation from the horns or nose of the animal, eager to get.at its breakfast or dinnér. The door can' then be unbuttoned and allowed to swing in against the side of the crib, when the cow can come forward and eat. 'Lhe crib can be made to fold down against the outside of the partition if more room is desired at any time in the feeding floor.— ‘American Farm Journal. ' .

GARDEN AND ORCHARD. Pourtry for the plum and hogs for the apple orchard. : v Trees should ncver crowd one another in the orchard. : MAKE the garden long enough to work handily with a team. IN pruning remember that diseased wood will never become sound. ot ANNUAL manuring of the orchard will help in securing annual crops of fruit. e . A TREE that: has plenty of room to grow naturally needs very little trimming. : o ? Ir a tree makes a slow growth it is advisable to cut back the shoots a little in the spring. ; \ : SuNLiGHT is absolutely necessary to the health and growth of the tree and the production of good fruit. It is a mistake to set trees in or around® the garden. The vegetables ‘need all light and sunshine possible. INJURY from borers-can be prevented to some extent by placing a mound of coal ashes around the stem of the trees. AFTER pruning the grape ¥ather up all the prunings, old decayed leaves and other rubbish in the vineyard and ‘burn them; ; . Moßg benefit: will be. derived from burying bones near grape vines, if care is taken to break them up fine before putting them in the ground. ONE of the best and easiest ways of propagating currants is by using’ wood of last season’s growth cut into pieces six or eight inches long.—St. Louis Republic. 1. VALUABLE VEGETABLE.

A Description of Endive, and When and How to Grow llt. What is endive and *how is it grown? we are asked. Its leavesmake a splendid salad when properly blanched, and one that is wery useful, as it comes in after lettuceis gone. 1t may be grown at any season, but is usually grown for use late in the fall. Tor an early crop sow in April, indrills 15 inches apart, and later on thin-out to 12 inches in the rows. It can also be sown in beds and transplanted to the above distance after attaining sufficient size. The main sowings are made in June and July. Ordinary good soil and cultivation is all it requires. When nearly fullgrown it is blanched in the following manner: Gather up the leaves and tie them by their tips in a conical form, thereby excluding the light and air from their inner leaves, which then. blanch to a beautiful yellowish white. This process takes two to five weeks, according to the temperature, bleaching fastest in warm weather.. Another method is to lay clean boards right over the plants which excludes the air and light. Tie up at different times as it only keeps a short time after blanching. For winter use thke up with earth and store in fraries or a dry cellar: One ounce sows 100 feet of drill.—Farmers’ Voice. . . To Destroy Hothouse Insects. A practical floriculturist who has tried many remedies for removing insects from house plants prefers above all applications a soap made from tHe oil of the fir tree. When properly used, he finds that it effectively does away with the ‘‘aps,” ‘‘mealy bug,” and scale. In its place an emulsion made of two parts kerosene and one part milk that has just turned sour, diluted with from. twenty to thirty parts of water and applied as a shower bath through a syringe, is a valuable insecticide, tested at one of the agricultural experi: ment stations and found useful else-

- L 4 { The Hammock That Swung in the Past. Against the clouds of memory two trees stand % tall and high, : : : With arms outheld entreatingly before the ~ glowing sky, : : To gather all the happiness of dreams fast ; floating by : And hold them for the dreamers that beneath " their shelter lie. o For from those trees there used to hang, in long-gone c¢hildish days, The bammock of our silent times, the hamse mock of cur plays; That swung and swayed to laughing heights - and wild and romping ways, : ‘While ail looked haply hazy in tne sunlight's reeling rays. '_ Or else it rocked and wavered with a creaking, sleepy strain : As dreams dropped from the shadows to a story-weaving brain, Till birds and bees about me sang a drowsy sweet refrain o That slipped away upon a thought where slumber came to reign. Iswing my mind from present time till life is yet aglow, Through mists of thought and tears of years I see the long ago; For childish hours are brightest and the world lused to'’know . Was sweetest in the hammock old which : swung me to and fro. R —Edith L. Crary, in Judge. . Gk A Spring Song. | Meadows—drcamy meadows, stretchin’ far away; ; Tinklin’ o' the dewdrops on the daisies every . day; . An’ the clouds are lookin’ whiter, an’ the sap is in the sod, An’ the sun is beamin’ brighter an’ i{s colorin’ the clod. : ¥

Singin’ of the mockin’ birds where wild the - blossoms blow; = Fifty million roses in a. perfect storm o’ snow! - An’ all the groves rejoicin’, an’ all the greenin’ hills K : A-lookin’ glad and giddy with the rattle o’ L the rills! - :

There's a twinkle in the maples, there's a whisper in the pines, ; An’ the hummin’ bird is huntin’ for the morn- : in’ glory vines: There's a thrill of life pervadin’ all the mountains an’ the dells, ; An’ music's in the breezes when the cattle . shake the bells. )

Oh, the country’s growin’ brighter, an’ the world in glory rolls; . The sunshine’s streamin’ whiter through the windows of our souls; The Lord’s unlocked His storehouse, with all He's got to give, - ¥ ' An’ if life would last forever we'd jest live, an’ live, an’ live! —Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.

. Some Other Day. There are wonderful things we are going to do, Some other day; i And harbors we hope to drift into Some other day. : With folded hands and ears that trail, We vglatch‘a,nd wait for a favoring gale -‘To fill the folds of an idle sail . Some other day. S EE We know we must toil if ever we win Scme other day, But we say to ourselves there's a time to begin Some other day; S And so, deferring, we loiter on, Until at length we find withdrawn The strength of the hope we leaned upon : Some other day. e And when we are old and our race is run . Some other day, We fret for the things that might have been done Some other day. - ¢ We trace the path that leads us where The beckoning hand of 3 grim déspair Leads us yonder, out of the here, ! Some other day. : _—Alfred Ellison, in Chicago Record With Violets. ! A send you a breath of spring, my dear, And the pulse of a warm, sweet day, Though the wintriest morning in all the year May frown from your skies of gray.. Just shut your sweet eyes and dream, my dear, With the sunniest dream of spring, And fancy the bobolink’s note you hear And the whirr of a robin’s wing. And into your ear.creeps the drowsy drone Of the bees in the clover-bloom, And you think, in your dream, that the gray v . old croné, Dame Natureis at her loom, While forward and back her shuttle flies. - 'Mid the rarest rose-tints of June, And across the orchard a blackbird cries , With the joy of life in his tune . i Then dream, with your sweet eyes shut, my dear, : That my hand .in your own is laid, And we seek together the youth of the year In the sweet of the apple-bough’s shade. And you shall know beyond doubt or fear In your dream, that I love but you—- - But whether you dream or wake, my dear, The love will be real and true! ; —Kate A. Bradley, in Detroit Free Press.

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“Dox’r pull yer gunin this here court,’ said the judge.. ‘‘You've got to respect the dignity what yoh see lyin’ roun’ loose here| an’ if you kill a man while court’s in session I'll fine you fer contempt !’ —Atlanta Constitution. : : { Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That | " Contain Mercury, e as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous: surfaces. Such articles should never ‘be used except on prescriptions. from rep utable p_hf'sicians, asthe damage they will & is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. J.Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, Mﬁ% directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Inbuying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sureyou get the genuine. It is taken internally. and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. %ﬁi}lold by Dmlggists, price 75c. per bottle. all’'s Family Pills, 25 cents. ; ~ A:Jvim'rm: says that the sensc of humor very rarely exists in children under twelve years old. This writer cvidently has never seen a [five-year-old child prying open the eyes of a four-days-old kitten.—Texas Siftings. :

'LOW-RATE EXCURSIONS . ‘April 2 and 30, 1895. On April2the IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE will sell excursion tickets to.all pointsin Arkansas, fo Lake Charles, La., and to all points in Texas, except El Paso, at the very lowrate of one fare for theround trip (plus $2), and on April 80 at one fare straight for vhe round trip to points in the Southeast. Liberal limits and stop-over privileges allowed. For full particularsind illustrated and descriptive pamphlets, address company’s agents or : (e H. C. TOWNSEND, General Passenger Agent, St. Lovuis. ' £ e e A . THERE is nothing more foolish than to advise a man to grin and bear it. . If he bears it patiently, he does enough without grinning.—Atchison Globe., g 7 - . : i Ask Aidg, i If you are troubled with malaria, constipation, biliousness, kidney trouble or dyspepsia, of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, and it will be speedily forthcoming. Nervousness, loss of appetite and slee;k)), and a loss of vigor, are also remedied by this restorative. Physicians of eminence indorse.it, a valuable confirmation of the verdict of the people and the press. Take it regularly. Waces—*Did you have a fine time last night?? Jaggs—‘*No, I had it this morning. Ten dollars fine; three dollars costs.” —Philadelphia Inquirer. i —— e e—— The Last Two Excursions to the South. Adprilv 2d and 'Alﬁ'ﬂ 30th tickets will be sold via C. &E. I. R. R. to various points in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, and to points in Florida west of River Junction, at one fare for the round trip. For tickets and infortnation apply to your nearest ticket agent, to City Ticket Office C. & E. 1. R. R., 230 Clark St., Chicago, or to C. W. HuMmPHREY, Nor. Pgss. Agent C. &E. LR. R,, 170 E. Third St., St. Paul, Minn. — ee P *, : Epworth Leaguers! = Send stamp for official book ¢‘‘Historic Chattanooga,” containing full particulars International Convention of Epworth Leagues, at Chattanooga next June.: The Queen and Crescent Route will make rate one fare for round trip. Cmas. W. Zerr, D. P. A, Cincinnati, O.; W. A. BECKLER, N. P. A, 111 Adams St., Chicago, Ill.; C. A. BAIRD, T. P. A., Detroit; W. W. DUNNAVANT, T. P. A.] Cleveland, O.; W. C. RINEARSON, G. P. A., Cincinnati, O. : . Woor—*l'm awfully behind .in my reading.” VanPelt—How’s that?”? Wool=*ll ot switched off on ‘Trilby,’ and now I'm gehind on at least nine or ten new lives of Napoleon.”—N. Y. World. . | —e e ' 4 ~ Tur Sterner Cycle Co., whose advertisement appears in another column, is thoroughly reliable and can be depended upon to do as they agree to. ; v : ! McVicker’s Theater, Chicago.: The Liliputians begin March 24, with “Humpty Igumpty Up to Date.” Don’t fail to see them. Seats secured by mail. . - e e e e e

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