Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 50, Plymouth, Marshall County, 17 September 1908 — Page 6

Nigiit Sweats & Cougli, E. W. Walton, Condr. S. P. Ry., 717 Vaa Nes3 St., Sa a Antonio, Tos., writes: 'Daring thenummer and fall of my annoyanco from catarrh reached that stage where it was actual misery and deycloped alarming symptoms, such as aTery deep-seated cough, night ßweats, and pains in the head and chest. I experimented with several socalled remedies before I finally decided to take a thorough course of Peruna. "Twoof my friends had gone so far a3 to inform ms that the thing for mo to do ai to resiga my position and seek a LTher, more congenial climate. Everyone thought I had consumption and I va3 not expected to live very long. "Having procured some Peruna, I decided to give it a thorough test and applied myelf assiduously to tho task of taking it, as per instructions, in the meantime. The effects were soon apparent, all alarming symptoms disappeared and my general health became fully as good as it had ever been in my life. 'I have resorted to the uao of Peruna on two or three occasions since that time to cure myself of bad colds." A Hoy oa Clersrura. Bishop Potter, at an ecclesiastical dinner in New York, read a Cooperstown B; Imk1 1oj-s esuay on Clergymen. The essay, which created much amusedent, was as fallows: There are 3 kinds of clergymen bishups rectors and curat, the bishups tell the recters to work and the curat have to do it. A curate is a thin married man but when he is a recter he gets fuller and can preach longer sermons and bccuins a good man." "Champ" Clark, the Missouri Congressman, never writes Lis full name, James R?auchamp Clark, except on important documents. TEN YEARS OF BACKACHE.

Thoaiandü of Women , Suffer la tko Sam War. Mr. Thos. Dunn, 153 Vine St., Colurubus, Ohio, says: "For Tnore thaa ten years I was in misery with backache. Thä simplest housework completely exhausted me. I had no strength or ambition, was nervous and suffered headache and dizzy spells. Aftrr thfe rears of pain I was desp.'iiriug of ever being cured when Doan's Kidney Pills came to my notice and their use Drougui quick relief and a permanent cure. I am very grateful." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. rVster-Milbnm Co.. Buffalo. X. X.. cheap livutq ei france. 11 nam 1 tto Onli m Slice and lee 10 Cent, far a Coffee Cup Foil. 'American women wouldn't complain about tiie prices uZ meats here if they once tried living in Bordeaux." said a womn who has Just returned from a year of housekeeping In that French city, to a New York Press reporter. The cheapest meat obtainable there i? ham," she explained, "and that cost!J cents a lice. Chickens are so exeiisive that every scrap of them, even ' te head, Is made use of by the Bor?au cook. I remember my surprise vhen the iirst plate of chicken soup was plaml before me at my own table, to behold funny little red scraps floatins: through it. The waitress explained that those were the chicken's comb, chopped Cue. To waste the comb of a chicken is considered an unheard of extravagance in Bordeaux. - Meals are L.ot only high In price there, but extremely poor. I soon adopted the custom of the wealthy families and sent my orders to Dax, the nearest large city, twice a week, and had my meats expressed from there. The meats are no cheaper In Dax than in Bordeaux, but they are the best I have ever eaten anywhere. As if to make up for the exorbitant price of meat, all vegetables cost a mere nothing, and the poor subsist entirely on vegetarian diet. "One of my chief d'-lights was the patisseries,, when? the most delicious cake3 and tarts could le had for a penny or two each- They were of Infinite variety, and so delicious that after eating them it is easy to understand why the1 French say we Americans don't know what cake is. Kvery customer is given a plate and fork uim entering the patisserie, and goes around the counters selecting her own. When you are leaving j'ou are al:ed the amount of yo.ir bill and your statement is never questioned. You pay what you say you owe. "But how I did long for a plate of g'Kid American Ice cream! It Is unknown there, except, perhaps, at a formal dinner, w here it is served In Infinitesimal portions, frozen In some fancy shape or figure. Every one over there assure you that the French don't care for Ice cream, and can't be made to patronize a place which serves it; but when yon buy Ice you understand the. real reason of its lack of iopuIarity. A piece of ice which cost 10 cents will almosf fit Inside a coffee clip." "THE PALE GIRL." Did Not Kaon Co ate Wm The Cans. In cold weather some people think a cup of hot coffee good to help keep r ami. So It la for a short time but the drug caff sine acts on the heart to weaken the circulation and the re action Is to cause more chilliness. There is u hot, wholesome drink which a Dak. girl found after a time, makes the blood warm and the heart strong. She says: "Having lived for five years hi N. Dale, I have used considerable coffee owing to the cold climate. As a result 1 had a duH headache regularly, suffered from indigestion, and had no life la me. -I was known as 'the pale girl', and people thought I was just weakly. After a time I had heart trouble and became very nervous, never knew what It was to be real well. Took medicine but it never seemed to do any good. "Since being married my husband and I both have thoaght coffee was harming us and we would quit, only to begin again, although we felt It was the same as poison to us. x "Then we got some Postum. Well, the effect was really wonderful. My tiHJipIexIon Is dear ntnv, headache gone, and I have a great deal of energy I had never known while drinking coffee. "I haven't been troubled with Indigos :Ion since using Postum, am not nervous, and need no medicine. We have a little girl and boy who both love Postum and thrive on It and (i rape-Nuts." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postuai Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Bead "The Koad to Wellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human Interest

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OLITICAL m Cleveland' Appeal for Tuft. Naturally, Mr. Cleveland's appeal to his fellow-countrymen to vote f:r Mr. Taft is exciting something like consternation jn the inner circles of the Democrat ie parly. The appeal was written only a short time In-fore his leath, and was directed particularly to his fellow-Democrats, it was his intention to write two other letters on the political situation during the campaign, but death overtook before he had completed his task. So far as is known he wrote only the one letter which lias just been made public In that one, however, he made his jtositlou plain. Mr. Cleveland gives a high tribute to the qualifications of the Republican candidate. "Personally and ollkially I have had the opportunity of knowing many things concerning Mr. Taft that were not a matter of general knowl Ptlire. and with a keen Interest I have watched his large share in the conduct of our national affairs Jn very recent years. His excellence as a federal judge in Cincinnati is something not to be underestimated or overemphasize), for should he conic to the presidential chair the qualities which made him a judge of high ability, which 1 know him to have been, will le the most needful to him as president of the Cnited States. His high Idea! of honesty and of relative justice, his great capacity for severe labor, and his humorous wisdom in the face of serious A BAD problems are attributes equally valuable and commendatory to a people seeking him In whom they may repose the trust of their collective iuterest while they turn their increased attention to their pressiug individual demands." For these and other reasons which he cited, Mr. Cleveland foresaw that the Republican party was moving "on to a safe victory" in Novcmlwr. It 3 ?vident by the references to Bryan which he made in his letter that he believed this year's defeat would loosen the Nebraskau's grip on the Democracy for good, although there are some Re publicans and Deimwrat who, regard less of the lieating that is jur ahead f him, believe that Bryan will capture the candidacy of that unfortunate organization in lt12 or 1!)11. Mr. Cleveland, then in the presidency, voted for Palmer, the candidate of the National Democracy, in 1S;. But there is no candidate in the fie'd this year whom lie could call Democratic. If Mr. Cleveland had lived to November that stalwart old patriot would have cast a ballot for William H. Taft. St. Louis (Uobe-Demoernt. Tbo Vermont Ilteetlon. To assert that the 1SU0 or more plurality for the Republican candidate for (Jovemor of Vermont means that Indiana, Nebraska and some other States which the Democrats put In the doubtfid column are sere for Mr. Taft would Ik to draw agreeable conclusions from inadequate prenUses. There are causes. such as the state of the weather and lcrsoual iopularity, which may affect the size of tho vote at a State election in Vermont which will play no part in the larger contest. In spite of their frequent cxjeriehee of all that may hapicn between August and November, iolitIcians are given to lielievlng that "the thing that hath been. It is that which shall lie." On the two occasions when Mr. Cleveland was elected the September plurality In Vermont fell below 20,m If that had hamened this year the Democrats would have lieen much elated and hall cd It a at onion of victory. The la bor of exolalning away an unpleasant result would have been thrown on the Republicans. The Vermont Democrats. knowing this, ought to have taken more Interest In the contest. They seem to have polled a little over I.Vmxj votes, which Is much less than in ISU2. This is no sign of growing love for Mr. Bry an in the Green Mountain State. So. while the lM.i,0;o plurality does not settle the presidential contest, it does moan that the Republicans have ü-ored a iioint. If there are any Re publicans who are suierstitiou on the subject of the Vermont plurality their fears have been removed. Whatever discouragement there may le over the election will fall to the lot of the Democrat. It is safe to say that the managers of Mr. Tail's campaign will not U unduly exalted localise of the pleasing result in Vermont. It will not lx'tray them Jnto overcontidence. They will work just as hard as they would have done if the plurality had fallen b-Iow the ? Milled danger line. Chicago Tribune. rjlicleiic). It has seemed ridiculous to force au officer of cast artillery to undergo the ninety-mile riding tests now engaging the United States army. The President has been criticised and the criticism has not been confined to those nagging journals afflicted with Rooseveltophia. Most of the fault-finding is based upon

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a misconception of the pnrix ses of the order. The government is not 'anxious to 1h' assured that every military ollher can mount a horse and stay upon its back for a given nuniler of mih-s. To prove that every ollker can 1 so would Ik flattering to the horsemanship of the service, though it is far from In-ing an essential in eury army. What the War Department is trying to learn is whether the. bearers of commissions are physically lit. Horseback riding is one way of discovering if this In so. It is such a test as lifting weights, or blowing a tin can full of wind, only a test and nothing more. The cry of the present N etlideney. It is the thing that every employer demand of Iiis clerks." of his foremen, of his shovelers; it is what he demands of himself. Note this urgency in every line, from watchfulness at grade crossings to running an insurance company. Though the trade unions declare they are formed for the lenetit of the average craftsman as well as for the most skillful, they are all tending toivard placing capability as among the requirements for a card. This is the secret of the question ashed of the applicant for employment, "do you drink?" It is why several of the railroads have informell their men that the smoking of t igarets is sullicient cause for dismissal. Lflhieney is the watchword of the ioriod. It is. at owe, the menace of tho OXEN. Chicago Tribune. drones and the en relets, and of the time-hoh red system of seniority. In exercising Ihe tests, some Injustice will always le worked to individuals, but, in the end. the many will be benefited and the personnel stripped of its weaklings. Sim-e in civil life ethciency is the command of the day. surely it should lo as much so in the army. To hold office under the government" merely for a score or so of years shoiiM not i-oin-mend a, man for promotion, or even for retaining his position. He should lo made to prove that he is prepared for any call from his country. I 'nt II a better method of inquiry is'found. the olli-co-s ought to accept the ordeal of shaken livers and telescoped vertebrae without betraying their injured feelings. Toledo B!ad. It inller.i limuniKt-ly. "What do.s It -matter," says the Albany Times -Union, "if wages nre reduced, provided the est of living Is also ivduccdV' The Times-I'nioa is perfectly willing to destroy the protective tariff, and it Agrees that th inevitable icsult of price reduction Is wage reduction, and sii!l it insists that the working man would be letter off than at present under the protective system. The assumption is that the cost of living is subject to the influence of the protective tariff. The mistake in the calculation is plalu on a moment's consideration. What ieople eat costs tlu-m many times annually the price of the things they wear, i:en if clothing i on a higher prhv level than may be the case abroad. America is still a country which exports vast quantities of grain and other foodstuffs. The prices of these things abroad are higher than they are lu the United States, and not lower. No reduction of tariff whatever could affect the price of the main lody of an American living. The first and most important result of warfare on the tarlT followed by reduction along the whole line would be to throw a vast army of wage earners out of employment In the mills and faetories. The cost of living would not bo reduced to them to any extent except possibly with respect to their clothing, but they would get no benefit tn.ai a reduction there, with no work and no wages to buy with at any price. The whole argument for tariff smashing is based ou n false impression. Buffalo News. llryMn'n Hope. When Louis Bennett was nominated by the State DcimK-ratle Convention of West Virginia be endorsed a platform whleh : Fa vols auienliii lh constitution so :js to preserve the purity of the ballot fi.;iii evil-i reuit hi-i f-oui c.iMP'iriD'i sin-h powers uud privileg'-s upon those who nre unlit to appreciate its ia;joi tain e. A -! i Iii Crow" resolution was jds.i :i ioptcd. and then a congratulatory telegram from W. J. Bryan was tvad: 1 greatly appreciate the cordial ii.Ioist'iijnt given by your convention, an. I share with you in the hope (hat the h.-aity co-operation promised may insu: a Democratic victory in West Virginia and the nation. What the colored ieopIe might expect to obtain from the DeuiiH-ratie party is the mercy the turkey gets in November, as painless as possible and quickly over. Toledo Blade. Iu Ireland, out of 1,000 females over 13 years of age, 107 are unmarried; in India, out of the same number, only forty-five.

Mr. Ttrynn an! thw National riefen. Mr. Bryan made a speech the other day nt St. Paul in which he denounced the alleged extravagant expenditures for i lie army and navy. The army was now more than twice as large as it was ten years ago. he said, and the expense had trebled. The navy. too. was testing three times as much as in those halcyon days. All of which was an outrage, in his opinion. It meant piling the burden of taxation on the citizen, who presumably i;ot nothing for his money. It was the fruit of "iniiteriallsni." for which the Republican party was alone responsible. It was a condition to be remedied by wise statesmanship. We tints see that in some respects time has written no wrinkles ou Mr. Bryan's demagogy. Even defeat has not chastened his fondness for the ea tch word "imperialism." He still uses it as if it meant something in American H!itics. With him evidently nothing dies harder than a dead idea. But this speech permits us to see another thing about Mr. Bryan. It shows our mos distinguished professional advinafe of change, our foremost '.adical. profoundly conservative on the question of national defense. Almost everything else in sight ought lo hi1 changed : for every good he has a prospective lK-itcr. But where army and navy are coii'-erned the closer the approximation to the status of ten years sigo the iM'tter pleased he is. This attitude of Mr. Bryan toward the instruments of national defense is easily understood. It has its roots in two diverse sources from which he has drawn. The one is the Democracy-inaction of Thi inas Jefferson, as exemplified in the ancient embargo and nonIntercourse acts. The other is the socialism icrsonihed In Mr. Debs. All know how zealously Mr. Jefferson set altout providing the country with means of offense and defense on a critical occasion. Xo effort to make proclamations take the place of men and ships has ever been superior. If the intention had governed, the results would have been wholly satisfactory. The touchstone of action showed the folly of the theory that the country could get along well enough without being ready to act. But Mr. Bryan still clasps it to Iiis Imsoiu. As to the other source, Mr. Bryan ha plainly taken in some of the inevitable accompaniments of the socialistic idea. Not only in Kuroio does depreciation of the instruments of national defense leaven that doctrine. It is the same in America. But iie'U her Jefferson's theory :ior the attitude of socialism emlKxlies the real American idea. It was something different which even now makes the Monroe doctrine ' a fact as well as a proclamation. Chicago Inter Ocean.

Tlie Country' Supply of Cah. The- treasury mathematicians tell us fhat the aggregate circulation of the country on Aug. 1 was $:5.fM.VJ02fU47, as com i tared with SJ.TSl.IfJrl.raX) at the same date in 1.07. The present figures break all the records. And the ten:tuey is upward. Moreover, the gold clement af the circulation is larg or than it was a year ago. It amounts to s'51ö,Tns.-.7. As the gold production f tho country a amis a chance t) go to the $l0.iH0,t:)0 mark in the calci :dar year I'.MS. the gold stock in the banks and lu the people's hands is reasonably certai'i to touch record-breaking figures by New Year's u l!)!. These big gains in the amount of money in circulation are calculated to make Bryan wish some of his predictions of 1st; aud 1(XX could be wiped off l lie slate. One of his complaints in Ids lirst canvass was that the refusal to throw the minis open to silver would reduce the stock of money iu ihe hands of the people to such a degree that then; would not be enough Jo take care of the exchanges. Like all his other political prognostications, this on" turned out to be widely astray. Not only has money itn.-reas;-! rapidly in thos. years, but it has grown faster than population. The growth l:i the gold ingredient of the circulation lias also been much greater than has the increase iu the number of the coun try's inhabitants. Tho per capita circulation is now .'il.77. as compared with S"J.J7 a year ago. .t the tune, in .July, ivh;, when Bryan was starting hi little reign of finaiieial terror, the per capita circulation was SlM.10. The population of the country has increased 11 -r eeiit in those dozen years, but we see til at the olnuie of the country's ash has grown much faster. The difference between a circulation of ?11.10 In the middle of 1s;n; and one of .s.'ll.77 now shows the whl. divergence between Bryan's prediction and the actual facts. Much of this increase in circulation Las been due le the fact that Bryan was heuten iu that year and also In his canvass of pjn. And Bryan's defeat in IPOS will foreshadow a further big gain in the coming four years. So long as Republican jKilic'es prevail the country will have active business and enough cash of the best sort to finance It. I.I We a Hun Saw. Bva (severely) I think a young man who kisses a girl against her will should be Indien dod. Jack Bv Jinks! That's what almost happened to me the last time I stole a kiss. Uva Really V Jack Yes, she wore a Merry Widow hat and the sharp edges caught me under the cliin. A chill Island. There are few people who once having seen the island of Achill can forget it Icnmy. The island lies close to the west coast of Ireland. When the jjkhs are blue, mountains green und smiling, logs clad lu purple and pink heather and the whole picturesque island in sunshine, the place is a wonderland. O -rhiirtlfiif l llh Memory. "Your son tt lis me lie is going to take .iko ! ssons to cultivate his memory." I hope not." answered farmer Corniv:..;el. "he can fciueiiiber every fool tune that was ever whistled." Washington Star. 'llioni;)it Too Mitch. T iiikins -Your wife seems to Ik a very Iheughtftil woman. Thompson--She Is. Ste thinks all kinds of tilings, If I happen to be out late. In the sandy - deserts of Arabia, whirling winds sometimes excavate pits L'l'ii feet in depth and extending down to the harder stratum on which the bed rests. Taking all crimes, more are committed in the autumn thau during any other of the four seasons of the year.

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Is there no road now to Leisurely Lane? we traveled it long ago: A place for the lagging of leisurely steps, sweet and shady and slow. There were rims of restful hills beyond, and fields of dreamful wheat. With shadows of clouds across them blown, aud poppies asleep at our fett. There lads and maids on a Sunday met, and strolled them", two ami two J The leaves they laced in a roof o'erhead, and only the sun peered through; And there was time to gather a rose, and time for the wood bird's call. And plenty of time to sit by a stream and barken its ripple aud fall. Is there no road now to Leisurely Lane 7 (Hod knows we have hurried afar!) There was once a lamp through the brooding dusk, and over the tree a star; There was once a breath of the clover broom (sweet Heaven, we have buried so long!) And there was a gate by a white rose clasped, and out of the dusk a song. That song the echo is strange nnd sweet, the voice It is weak and old; It hath no part with this fierce, wild rush, and this hard, mad fight for gold! It hath no part with the clamor and din and the jarring of wheel and stone! Oh, listen, my heart, and forgot forget that we reap the bread we have sown ! Is there no road now to Leisurely Lane where, lingering one by one, The summoning bells of twilight tim over the meadows blown '' May find us strolling our homeward way, glad of the evening star? Is there no road now to Leisurely LnneV God ki:ows we have hurried afar! Virginia Woodward Cloud.

A Sister to Balaam

I'd like to borrow a fresh egg, ; please." Miss Martha was washlug the cream pitcher, a pitcher of the quaint blue w are which had belonged to her grandmother, and she did not look around until the delicate operation was finished. Then she turned squarely aud faced her caller. She was a trim, active little woman, who had lost her youthful slenderness, and thougn she had begun to speak of herself es an old woman, her friends were inclined to regard the title, as a joke. The girl in the doorway was of an exaggerated slep.derness that made Miss Martha seem almost portly, and her eyes met Miss Martha's with the unwavering iutenslty of one who claims a right rather than asks a favor. After a moment she repeated her request. "If you please, I'd like to borrow a fresh egg." "1 I'm," reflected Miss Martha; "yesterday it was half a loaf of bread, wasn't it'r" That's' what I asked for," said the caller; "you gave me a whole loaf." "And the day before," continued Miss Martha, takiug no notice of this reply, "It was a cup of milk." The girl In the doorway nodded, still keeping her unwinking gaze on Miss Martha's face. Miss Martha, vainly scrutinizing her caller's face for any trace of embarrassment, was annoyed to find herself flushing to the roots of her hair. "I can't say that I approve of borrowing." Miss Martha went on. "If I run out of soda or molasses, I Just tell myself that it serves me right for not being more foresighted, and I get along without what I want till I've had a chance to go to town. And as long as I've got principles against borrowing," she concluded, swallowing a lump In her throat, "it's no more"n reasonable that I shouldn't believe in lending" "Then nren't you going to let me have a fresh egg;" asked the girl In the doorway. She spoke disp.-wdon-ately, as If she were merely Interested to know how far Miss Martha's principles would carry her. Miss Martha rallied her forces. "No, 1 guess not. You see, this thing's got to stop some time. And it might as well be now as ever." (.ood-by," said the girl turning away. Then, as she feared she had been abrupt, sh? halted on the doorstep to say. "Its a nice morning." But Mis Martha dropped into a chair and wiped her damp forehead. ''My! that girl's a case," she ejaculated, with a distinct sense of relief as she heard the gate click behind her visitor. "She's brazen, that's what she is. The way she looks at you makes you feel as small as If she had caught you In some mean trick. I suppose I'll have to buy that Bailey place yet and tear that house down to get rid of the neighbors It brings." "The Bailey place." was, in fact, the bitter drop In Miss Martha's cup. The tumble down house was half way down the slope of the hill w hich was crowned by Miss Martha's neat cottage. Much of the time It was empty, and then Miss Martha suspected It of Affording a haven to tramps. The rest of the year It was occupied by shiftless tenants, whom she rated below the tramp. Inasmuch es they were much more in evidence. The last occupants had been In possession less than a week, and the various steps in their acquaintance had been outlined by Miss Martha In her conversation with the girl In the doorway. The hours went b.v, and even at nightfall Miss Martha' had not regained her accustomed equanimity. Either the day had been peculiarly full of small vexations, or her morning's encounter with her neighbor had been more disturbing than she would acknowledge. Even the counting of the egg was a disappointment. Miss Martha's pride In her hens was only equaled by the admiration of the women In the neighborhood, who were in the habit of declaring that they would give the world to know what Miss Martha did to her hens to make them lay so. At this season of the year she could depend upon them to do their duty about as she depended on the sunrhe," but to-day the number fell short by one. And, strangest of all, it wa3 Speckle who was the delinquent. Speckle's big brown contribution to the common store was unmistakable, but for once it was conspicuous by its absence. The next day the same thing happened. The first omission had made MIäs Martha frown. The second set her to thinking. Speckle did not want to set, that was certain, and she was uot a hen to take unreasonable freaks, like a foolish young pullet. There was a possibility that she had stolen her nest, but Speckle had never done such a thing In all her decorous life. "I thought she took it wonderfully cool when I didn't let her have that egg," said Martha to herself, her lip tightening. "I guess she'll bear watching." And the pronoun did not refer to Speckle. Along In the forenoon of the th'yd day Miss Martha put on her hat and started down the hill In the direction of the Bailey housi? with a vague pur pose of meeting her girl neighbor and dropping a hint which would stop her in her dishonest career. But instead It was Miss Martha who received the check. As she advanced toward he

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neighbor's her eyes wandered to the dilapidated side porch, overhung with ..4,,. ours, anu tuere cn the upper step sat a speckled hen. Miss Martha rubbed her eyes, but these trusted orK.uis u,m llot piaywl her false. The hen was Speckle, and even as her mis tress stood and stared, she rose to her feet with the triumphant cackle which had gladdened Miss Martha's heart so often in the past There was only one explanation to the singular circumstance Speckle had taken It upon herself to grant the favor her mistress had refused! Miss .Martha turned and went home with a strange sense of bewilderment She was too upset to prepare her usual hearty dinner, and Instead made herseir a cup of ten,- like anyone, in the world but a sensible spinster who had kept house alone for a matter of twen ty-nve years. Ska was washing the single cup and saucer when footsteps sounded on the walk, and the girl from the Bailey house came into the kitchen She held in her hand a tin dish con tabling three eggs, and she set them down cn the tabic. "I suppose I'd ought to have told you before." she said, as Miss Martha turned tremulously, "lour speckled hen's been stealing her nest. For the last three days she's laid on our doorstep." She looked as if she did not expect to l-e believed, but Miss Martha had good reason for thinking the improba ble story was true. "Won't vou sit down?" she said, appeal Ingly. The girl did not seem to hear the In vitation. "I don't know as I need to tell you," she went on, "but I guess "do.n't worry about paying it hack. I will. I came near keeping those eggs. I thought " her resolute yoj'.ng voice broke suddenly "I thought may be the Lord had sent them." "Oh, dear me!" cried Miss Martha. Mie erosseu the room and laid her hand on the visitor's arm. "Vou sit right down," she half commanded, half entreated. "I've got to under stand this." The girl sank Iuto the nearest chair and began to cry. "It was for mother I wanted the things," she sobbed. "The dtctor said she'd got to have nourish ing food, and what's a girl to do when ?r father drinks? Half the time he's out of work, and wheu he gets a little money he spends it for whiskey." The undemonstrative New England woman clasped her visitor's hand. The girl leaned her head against the friendly shoulder and- wept there as If there were comfort both iu the contact and the tears. T didn't blame you any of the time. It was 'most a lie anyway when I asked you to lend me the things Just as if I meant to pay 'em back. I know it was the same as begging, but some how I didn't care If only uiotker'd get well." "You sit still in that chair," Miss Martha commanded. "Don't stir out of it till I get back." She hurried into the pantry and began to till a basket which stood upon tho shelf. It was a heavy basket when she brought it out. for Miss Martha's housekeei 'ng was on a liberal scale, if she did live by her self, i "You'll let .me scrub or something to pay you back, won't you?" said the girl, lifting her eyes eloquent with gratitude. "I can do 'most all kinds of work, I dou't care how hard It "Don't worry about paying it back,' Miss. Martha returned, patting her shoulder. "But I don't say you can't help me out some day. That's what neighbors are for, you know, to help each other. Tell your mother I'll drop In to see her to-morrow. I'm a pretty good hand at fixing up sick folks." After her visitor's departure. Miss Martha made an errand to the back yard, aud carried Speckle some scraps, which that sagacious fowl took from her hand. I can promise you one thing," said Miss Martha, looking fondly down on her favorite, "you won't ever be fricasseed or made Iuto a pie, no matter if a dozen ministers come to dinner, and there wasn't a scrap to eat in tue House. Its a queer thing," added Miss Martha, a touch of solemnity creeping Into her voice, "for a woman of my age to be taught her duty by a speckled hen. Dumb things see more than wo do, sometimes. I can't help thinking that I'll feel like a sort of sister to Balaam for the rest of my natural life.' Christian Advocate. There seems to be only one thing that ages quicker than a pretty girl when she marries, and that Is a yellow shoe.

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FRIEND OF PLANT LIFE.

John Randolph' RebuUe of a Youth W ho Had Felled a Vounie Hickory. An old weather-beaten one-room building standing in the courtyard at Ken bridge. Lunenburg County, Va., is the office in which John Randolph of Boanoke practiced law, says the Youth's Companion. It was the custom of the times to build these little offices on th3 courtyard green and many a famous lawyer has worked up his case in such an oju little shelter. No building C the kind, however, was ever occupied by a lawyer of more interesting ar.d unique character thaiuthis little ofiice at Keubrldge. One of Randolph's peculiarities is dwelt upon by Powhatan Bouldln and Illustrated by an Incident which proves that the stern and eccen tric man formed a society, all by himself, for the prevention of cruelty to plants. This story is told by a friend of Randolph's nephew : "When I was a boy I visited at Roauoke. The house was completely envi roned by trees and underwood jind seemed to be In a dense virgin forest. Mr. Randolph would not permit even a switch to be cut near the house. 'Without being aware of thU one day I committed a serious trespass. Zi.y friend Tudor and I were roving about when I, perceiving a straight youflg hickory about an inch thick, felled It. Tudor said Ids nncle would be ven? angry, so I Immediately went and informell him what I had Ignorantly don? and expressed my regret. Mr. Randolph took the stick and hioked pensively at it as if commiser ating Its fate. Then gazing at me he said : "I would not have had this done for fifty Spanish milled dollars!" I had 75 cents und had entertained some Idea of offering it, but when I heard about the fifty dollars I was afraid of Insulting him by such meager compensation. "Did you want this for a cane?" asked Mr. Randolph. "No. sir." "No, you nre not old enough to need a cane.. Did you want it for any particular purpose?" "No, s!r. I only saw that it wt a pretty stick and thought I'd cut It. "We can be justified In taking aninul life only to furnish food or to remove a hurtful object. We cannot be Justified in taking even vegetable life without some useful object in view. Now God Almighty planted this thing and you have killed It without any adequate object. It would have grown Into a large nut tree and furnished food for many squirrels. I hope and believe you will never do so again.' "Never, sir, never!" I cried. He put the stick into n corner and I escaped to Tudor. It was some time before I could cut a switch or fishing rod without feeling I was doing some sort of violence to the vegetable kingdom. OWES FORTUNE TO PRESIDENT. Girl Sent tu Kiel Relative bj- Fath er Who Anked Itooevelt Advice. Peach alley, a narrow, squalid little thoroughfare in tbo hill district home of the poorer Russians, I hesi Je Itself with Joy to-night, says a Pittsburg dis patch to the New York Herald. Be cause he took the written advice of President Roosevelt and penrltted a wealthy relative In Memphis, fenn., to take charge of his little m therless daughter Rosle, Halmen Sheffler, a pov erty strleken tohacco "huncher" In a cigar factory here, llviug in Peach al ley, is happy to-day in the knowledge that hU daughter, who is 8 years old, has inherited $.'0.000. Sheffler had to pass the hat in Peach alley this evening to raise the price of a ticket to Memphis to get his little daughter and her money. Some years ago the young wife of Sheffler died, and when Mrs. Margaret Schacher, the Tennessee relative referred to, offered to take th. child to her southern home and educate her, the father hesitated between love aud duty. In his iierplcxlty he wrote to President Roosevelt, explaining the circumstances and asking what he should do. He received a reply from Mr. Roosevelt advising him to penult the child to go un til he could see his way to take care of her himself. While at work this afternoon In the tohacco factor- ShelHer was approached by a detective scut by Chief McGough, who had been asked by the Memphis authorities to trace him and tell him that his relative, Mrs. Schaeffer, had died, leaving his daughter Rosie her fortune, which is estimated at $r0,000. Sheffler insisted on finishing his day's work and was fearful that he might lose his Joh If he went to Memphis, but on being assured that the father of such an heiress would always find a joh there, if he wanted to work, he decided to start South. "He Is a great and good President, that Mr. Roosevelt a good manand we will all vote for him lu Peach alley," said Sheffler this evening. Ship that Will Not Turn Turtle. How to prevent ships from "turning turtle" as the result of a blow either by ram, torpedo, shot or collision per forating the under water part of her hull has for ten years iast closely en gaged the attention of General K. E. Goulaeff, a member of the Institute of Naval Architects, who recently in Lon don detailed a plan whereby ships could be rendered both uuslukable and uucapsizable. In the Goulaeff system of construe tlon, which comprises soine modification of the form and proportions, of vessels, the Inventor has endeavored to protect the ship against torpedoes by the Internal system of constructlju of the hull. He has attained this pur pose by making vessels much broader than they have been or are at present, leaving their length the same or mak ing them even somewhat longer. The form of construction provdes treble broad longitudinal cellular side corridors, which are rendered possible by the increased breadth of the 'vessel, and are Intended to reduce to a minimum the quantity of water that may enter the ship through Injuries or openings made In her under water skins. Technical World Magazine. A Collector of Coin. Ostend Pa, what Is a numismatist! Pa A numismatist, my son, Is a col lector of coins. Ostend And, pa? Pa Well, my sou? Ostend Is a head waiter a numis matist ? Chlea go News. If the children look with suspicion at a caller, it Indicates that they are accusing the caller of having come because he heard the lee cream freezer. Kvery man mistakes merited punishacut for persecution.

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Constipation o eveonxc y proper personal efforts vtiMke assi stance tjlhcow truly bene ji rial laxative retned)' S) rup oj ItgS and L,ur jSein, wKicK enables onelojorm refujar Svabitfc daily $o that assL&nce to hatüre may be gradually c!i.penscq"üH Wn rio longer neecletl astfeebestof temeiics,K4cn Yfoutrcd, arc to assist nature ani not to rUipjJar.t the naW. al functions, vkicfi mußt depend ulti taQiely upon proper5 tiouri.srvmetit, rrivpereJIortsawdriKt living general, iogetits beneficial effects, always buy tbe genuine SyrubRgsEltrcSenna California Fig Svnup Co. oxiy SOLD BY ALL. LEADING DRUGCiSTS otic size only, rular price 50, f ßott I EYESIGHT WAS IN DAX GEH From Terrible Ccseata Baby's I lea a Mass of Itching Rash anl Sore Illaeaae Cared sr Cnfirara. "Our little girl was two months old wheu she got a rash on her face and witbin five days her face and head were all one sore. We used different remedies but It got worse instead of better and we' thought she would turn blind and that her ears would all off. She suffered terribly, and would scratch until the blood came. This, vent oa until she was five months old, then I had her under our family doctor's care, but she continued to grow worse. He said it was eczema. When she was seven months old I started to use the Cutlcura Remedies and In two months our baby was v. different girl. Vou could not see a tign of a sore and she was as fair as a new-born baby. She has not had a sign of the ec7.ema since. Mrs. II. F. Hudke, LeSueur, Mian., Apr. 15 and May 2, 07.M .Ulg Pennsylvania Oak. A monster rock oak tree was recently cut in Juniata township, Huntingdon county. Its dimensions were as follows after having lecn cut down and peeled: The circumference of the butt was 12 feet 7 inches, or a diameter of about 1 feet; the diameter at the end of the last log, or C2" feet from the butt, was 22 inches; no limbs were on the tree wltbin CO feet of the ground. The logs were measured and the amount of lumber that can be made is 2,1 tH) feet board measure, and twelve crosstlcs co be macre from th limbs. The bark will amount to from iy2 to l?i cords. Philadelphia Record. How Sue Kept Young. Sjme one once asked a woman how It was she kept her youth so wonderfully. Her hair was snowy white, eht was 8) years old and her energy was waning, tut she never impressed one with the idea of age, for her heart was still young In sympathy aud interest. And this was her answer: "I knew how to forget disagreeable things. I tried to master the art of saying pleasant things. I did not expect too much of my friends. I kept my nerves well In hand, and did not allow them to bore otber jxople. I tried to rind auy work that came to hand congenial." Woman. " HowandWnere to Register for a Farm in the Rosebud Reservation. The President has signed a proclamation opening that part of the Rosehud Indian Lands in South Dakota, generally known as the Tripp County lands, and designated Judge James W. Witten, the Chief Law Officer of the General Land Office, to superintend and conduct the registration and drawing to be held la October. 1903. Persons who desire to register for this drawing should go to CHAMBER LAIN or PRESI10, South Dakota, via Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, between October 3 and October 17 and there sign and swear to an application for registration which will be furnished by the officer administering the oath. These lands embrace S28.000 acres, part of which have been allotted to Indians, and are located on the south bide of the State of South Dakota, and adjoin the lands in Gregory County which were opened In 1904. .They are desirable for farming and stock-raising purposes. Similar lands In adjoining counties are selling for $33 to ft!) an acre. Cheering Him l'p. Little Elmer Grampa, why do yon look so sad? Grampa 1 was Just thinking. Her I am sixty years of age, snd I havs never done anything that will be likely to make posterity remember me. Little Elmer Oh, welL don't worry. Mebby you'll still have a chance to 11 vi In history as sonielody's grandfather. Low Round Trip Rates .. Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo Via Nickel Plate Road. Tickets on sale Sept 21, 23, 26 and 27. Good returning Oct. 10. Ask agent or write. J. C. Melenbacker, T. P. A., Fort Wayne,-Ind. (48) An Lnfortanata Mlsaaderatan Jlng. 'I had to leave my last situation because the missus said they were going to lead the sinful life, and tbey wouldn't want any servants about the place." Punch. lira. Wlnilowi aaikiu im for Children teetblnr; softens tba rama, reduces tnnam.natloa, allays pal a. curs wind colic. Xk cnts a bottlo. Don't Lira In lioases. Why is a new house uuhealthful) That Is a question which has been asked by many and answered by few. And yet the reason Is obvious. In the coustructlon of just one medium sized house it Is estimated that over 30,000 gallons of water Is used. This water does not evaporate so quickly as It would In the air and sunlight, but Ilea near the surface of the earth and under the house and In the waU of tb cellar; heuce the housels dnmp. aud damp houses foster illness. A house that has been standing for a year or w Is much molt? healthful than o new one. Miuneanoiu Journal.

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