Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 September 1894 — Page 6

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WOMAN AND HOME.

ABBY SMITH AND "AN IDYL OF MODERN NEW ENGLAND."

A Room Especially For the Children—Odd Tiih:g» About Woman's Age Greater IJOVC Hath No Man—Tho Middle Aged

Woman—Keeping the Baby Amused.

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From this "Idyl of Modern New England" here is a brief extract. Abby Smith is

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lating their case to the Springfield Republican: "'My sister went into the yard to entreat him (the tax collector) to leave two of tho cows together—there were eight —that one might not be left alone. But she could not prevail, and the little thing (the poor man's portion) has cried ever since. The cows were taken to a neighbor's, and tho neighbor said nothing could exceed the trouble they had to get them into his yard. Ho could do nothing with them. These cows will sometimes bo very contrary, when nobody can manage them but iuy sister. She will call them all by their names, and they will come to her upon the gallop. They will follow behind her in single file, and she can lead them wherever she chooses. When wo had a new tenant, they wouldn't let him come near them, and she has been obliged to stand at their head (where they could see her) every day when he milked for ever so long." 4 Tho names of these famous cows wore

Daisy, Whitey, Minney, Jessy, Roxy, Martha Washington and Abigail Adams. The fame of the sisters spread so far and wide that the mails of Glatsonbury, hitherto not very weighty, went loaded down with letters and papers from all parts of the country. Their table was piled with them, and their time occupied in reading and answering letters. It was quaint A bby Smith who set the ball in motion and kept it rolling by her unique speeches and simple, old fashioned ways, but back of her was Julia Smith, with her Greek and Hebrew lore and her five translations of the Bible. And these and Abby and the cows together made a combination and a fame which, for originality, has been unrivaled in modern times.

People from many quarters made pilgrimages to the old Smith mansion, and the sleepy town of Glastonbury, hitherto •without a record In the world's annals, became distinguished by two women. While Julia raised oows, Abby raised the breeze that wafted them to public attention. But their fame rests equally on both. In the days of the "Mlllerites" and their talk about the end of the world Julia wanted to learn if there was any warrant in the original Hebrew for Miller's predictions fixing the end of the world in 1843. So she studied Hebrew and then went to work and translated the Bible. She translated It five times, then put it away in a bureau drawer and published it many years after, when she was 86.

A Room For the Children.

Children are proverbially fond of bright things, and even the smallest tots reach out for the oolored pictures with evident delight A room, therefore, the walls of which are covered with these pretty things is sure to appeal to all their hearts.

Tho various art magaeines, the papers and some few of the finest advertising cards will supply tho material. All that you noed to raako a picture room out of the ordinary nursery is a little energy and a generous supply of that gumption attributed to all live Yankees.

The pictures should first be sorted and some kind of order arranged. Thon when yon have a sufficient number and have planned how to place them so as to got tho best results you will bo ready to begin the practical work.

Each picture should bo set within a frrtnio, so to speak, or each should bo surrounded by a molding tacked about the edge. The best for the purpose is the narrow half inch width painted in a flat tone, such as paper hangers use about tho panels of a room. If that is more costly than seems wise, in view of the amount required, tho ordinary gilt sort will answer. The main essential is to get something unobtrusive and as plain possible.

Tho pictures once grouped and tho moldings selected, the next step Is to make smooth flour paste and to cover the entire wall with the gay, pretty scenes. Then when they are dry and firm fit the molding about each one and tack tho strips in plaeJwitll the Jong slender brads made for the piirnogeT"

The jhe difficulty is to make tho joints of tho molding neat and exact. All the rest Is simple, and only a little judgment is required to make a collection which will be to the children a perpetual delight.

One woman of unusually fertile resource# has hit upon a plan for dispensing with the wood molding and for nslng ordinary manilla ropo In its place. Her success has been great, and her room is in some ways better than the ordinary sort, so if the molding seems a troublesome fact there is away of evading that part of the work.

In this especial room tho pictures are selected with uutsual care and are grouped according to size. The rope is carried in straight lines, both horizontal and vertical, between the edges and is tacked fast bat each place of meeting with an ornamental nail.

The effect la really an excellent one, and the rope makes quite a sufficient frame in addition to having reduced both tho labor and the cost.—New York Herald.

Woman** Ago.

When tho writer was only 14 years old, she thought it very fine to be ooosidoed much older, and to that end cultivated the society of girte 18 and 30, dodngher best to assume grownup aiw and fftqoes until %b9a In reeftftjr #b*

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Idyl of Modern New England," and editorially calling attention to it said: "'We ask every thoughtful man who has tho ballot and every thoughtless woman who is in the habit of saying she doesn't want it to rend Abby Smith's story of the New Year's call paid her by the tax collector of Glastonbury. It is well worth reading if only for tho quaint simplicity of the style. This is a bit of Defoe's English. But the matter is still more noteworthy than the manner. In refusing continue paying heavier taxes than any other property owners in Glastonbury, while refused a voice in assessing and spending them, Abby Smith and her sister as truly stand for the American principle as did the citizens who Hpped open the tea chests in Boston harbor or the farmers who leveled their muskets at Concord. And they seem to have very much the same quality of quiet, old fashioned Yankee grit. They don't shriek, nor wring their hands, nor mnko a fuss of any sort. They are good nature itself. But they are also logic itself, and resolution itself, and pluck itself. They simply stand upon their rights."

shrugged Its shoulders and said "She can't pose as an infant. Why, to our certain knowledge she has been grown up for at least eight years."

Thus the battle between the real and the flotitlous age began, and it was quite as hard to make people bellove, even with the help of the Bible, that it was precocity rather than precision that had been the agent in converting iv.&Ui&ll girl( into a jyrown woman. J, ,,

Tli is' is one side of the story. The other is the unnecessary and ridiculous deception that some women think necessary in regard to their ages when they hovo onco turned 35. Each year appears to them but an added burden, and, as though maturity wero somothing to be ashamed of, they set op anew system of calculation, allowing a birthday to come around only once in two or three years. Now, isn't that a bit of folly quite as much to be derided as the other phaso that attacks us early in life?

This is the age of woman, and sho is not entitled to that distinction until the teens havo been well left behind and she has acquired a graceful roundness of experience that tinges her conversation, her walk and. her ways. Dignity has a charm superior to klttealsh flippancy. Tho progress that has made the world abetter plaeo to live in has likewise set Its seal upon tho intellect of man, and the real thinker, tho real worker, wants companions, not toys, In the women he meets daily. There is a rare charm in youth that can never be dimmed, yet there is another in ripened perfection that lives longer and can only bo acquired from actual living experience. Therefore why noed the sensiblo woman care as sho sees tho years flit by, for, though they bring gray hairs, they likewise bring richer, purer emotions and nobler sentiments, the just reward for the loss of youth's hopes and rosy visions.—Philadelphia Times.

Greater Love Hath No Man.

They wero lifting her tenderly out of the car. She was as white as snow, and her eyes had tho look of one who sees quite through tho intervening veil that floats between this life and the other. The bonnet on her head was a bluo poke, and by that token I knew that she belonged to the Salvation Army.

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sho very ill?" asked one who stood by. "Oh, very Wo hardly expected to get her as far as this. That's her husband who has her in his arms, and it just seems as if he couldn't let her go!" "What Is the matter with her?" "Quick consumption, most likely. Leastways that's what the doctor says it is, but I guess it's overwork and confinement in a bad neighborhood. She's been 6lumming all summer, and she wasn't very strong to start with." "What do you mean by slumming?" "Going down where the very poor live and camping alongside of 'em, eating what they eat, breathing the same air they breathe and sleeping on the damp floor with them. That's what killed her, but she wanted to do it. There isn't any compulsion in it, but now and then we get hold of a soul that's enough like Jesus to do his work his way. She was a true .soldier, that girl was, and now she's going home it just makes me want to shout 'glory' all the time to think what she's going to find—her rosy cheeks again and her plump arms and her pretty ways as they were before she laid 'em all aside to work for Jesus."

The sick woman vanished in the crowd, held close in the arms of the man who loved her. Tho voluble talker moved onward with her, while I mused a bit by myself as I strolled alongside. "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his lite," etc.—Chloago Herald.

The Middle Aged Woman.

Fashion of late years has done much toward improving the appearanoe of the middle aged woman. It was not so many years ago that the mother of a young lady daughter was always attired in somber colors. For her to be smartly gowned was not considered correct form. Black, gray and the dull shades of heliotrope were permissible, but the brighter oolors were entirely out of the question for the middle aged woman's gown.

Now a decided change has taken plaoe, and it is not strange to see both mother and daughter appear In oostumes off the same piece. House gowns of white crepon, trimmed with violet ribbons, are charming when worn by a woman with silvery hair. Tho new grenadines make appropriate afternoon toilets. The Louis Quinze jackets are well adapted to tho elderly woman of today, and they possess a stately style to which none of her garments 80 years ago ever owned.

And she Is not oompelled to wear a morning cap either. Her hair may bo fashionably arranged and her bonnet as chic as her granddaughter's. Of course the woman of 60 does not appear In chorry oolored gowns, but a touch of oolor is quito allowable. Pelerines of black lace are made over a oolored foundation, and a vest of some soft tint only has a tendency to make tho gown moro becoming.

Ago demands more attention than youth, and the elderly woman of today realizes this and drosses accordingly.—Fashion Journal.

Keeping the Baby Amused.

Perhaps tho following suggestions may help you to find occupation for your busy baby boy, writes Elizabeth Robinson Scovil in Tho Ladles' Home Journal: A baby will bo attracted for a short time by some fine toy that he can simply look at, but he will spend ten tlmos as long in putting pegs Into holes In a board contrived for the purpose, or in taking out one by one from a well filled basket articles no matter yvhat—spools, blocks, clothespins—anything so that thV7 afo aomsttffieg and he does not tire of the monotony. Xhyn fcitf task of putting theiji aU back keeps him busy for a still longer time.

As a baby becomes more discerning and his fingers more nimble, a pleasing device for his employment Is a board with varloysly shaped holes, round, square, triangular, etc., with blocks and spheres to fit into the various places. Should these be in bright oolors his love for oolor may also be gratified, and learning these oolors soon follows.

Little tasks of carrying articles from one portion of the room to another or from room to room will often keep a child busy and interested for hours. A small hammer and Kicks, with a soft board Into which to drive them, is generally a delight to any child old enough not to put the tacks Into his mouth. So simple ate the employments that will satisfy the little tot that almost any mother will find them constantly suggesting themselves.

A Chip Basket.

In the home of a certain charming woman there always stands upon the library table a dainty receptacle called the chip basket. The chips ate bits of pasteboard, out from a large shoot into many shapes— nuarts triangles, oblongs, any shape (feat will eoonomitte the anttc* thee*. It

is a family where much reading aloud done, *nd on theso little cards are written the wise, witty or curious truths and say' ings that please the mind mightily aBthey are road. One of the members of the family, who is clever with his pen, illustrates many of the sayings in blaok and white while listening to the reading. In spare moments, while waiting, the oontents of the basket are often pioked up and fastened in the memory. At the end of the year, if the chips were all of a size and unsoiled, they oould be tied with ribbon, put Inside a pretty cover of suede leather or water color paper, painted in some pretty design, and passed on to some familiar friend who had kindred tastes.-—New York Post. 1

Toilet Waters.

Toilet waters can bo easily made at home. For violet water put a quarter of a pound of fresh picked sweet violets together with their weight of pure alcohol into a large bottle cork and shake the bottle every day for one weokj then add a quarter of a pound of water, filter and bottle for use,

Lavendor water Is ill ado by slowly steeping for one hour in a oovered farina boiler a pound of fresh lavender with a pint of water. On its removal from the fire add 3 quarts of alcohol filter and bottle for use.

One of the most delightful of homemade toilet waters is cherry laurel water. Bruise one ounoe of bay leaves and add to them a half pint of water. Stoop slowly for an hour in a farina boiler take it from the fire and add a quart of lavender water filter and bottle for use.—New York Advertiser. ''v

Children's Luncheons.

The requisite fast between meals Is for grown folks and not for little folks to heed. Children as a class are small eaters. They play hard, and the very ruthlessness of their merry lives Insures digestion. When they ask for something to eat, It should be forthcoming, and the best that can be had. If only nutritious food, suitable to their delicate organization, were served, health would be-commoner among men and women. As the ohlld develops his habits of lifo change. Instead of being outdoors playing all day ho is Indoors studying. Tho lack of exercise will weaken digestion and necessitates regular moals and nothing to eat between them.—New York Telegram.

Don't Be Conspicuous.

For womon of moderate means it Is nev1er in good tasto to appear on the street or In public in a conspicuous gown, bonnet, hat or any other oonspicuous article of wearing apparel. Quiet oolors, Indefinite designs, medium styles, are the most ap proprlate. Every one knows how a bright oolored dress, hat or wrap will mark a person if she is obliged to wear It constantly. Women who possess carriages can dress In gayer apparel than their poor sisters, who must always be in the glare of sunlight, exposed to its searching rays.—New York Journal. "u"1"

Kitchen Wall Coverings.

Tiling is the ideal wall coveringTor a kitchen. Paint, finished with a coot of varnish, comes next. The cheapest, prettiest and best for the money is sanitary paper, which Is fin^hed so as to be nonabsorbent. Tho blue and white pattern, In imitation of Dutch tiles, Is admirable. Cover tho five walls, and every part of the room can be washed on cleaning day.

For Small Drawing Rooms.

•or the small drawing room where largo and heavy pieces of furniture look out of place tho best houses recommend Chippendale daintiness in mahogany or a light colored wood. Let the wood bo mahogany if you can afford It, because if It is cared for as it should be it will be a delight to more than one generation*.

The sponge racks sold at the house furnishing stores should be in every bathroom. Those of openwork wire permit the air to circulate about the sponge so that it dries quickly and is kept free from odor.

When you are going to use spices of any kind or pepper, get. the whole grains and grind them yourself- Then you will not run the risk of spoiling your viands with pulverized chip*.

A sooty chimney can be ckaUied by firing a gun or pistol up the flue. The ooncusslon dislodges tbe soot, and It tumbles

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Wrappers are not good farm for breakfast table anywhere and are never worn at public tables or wfaen visiting.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, SEPTEMBER 15, 1894:•&?•

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Bedroom Arrangement.

A pretty and inexpensive way of'arranging one's bedroom is to havo all tho white things in it of one kind of matorial. White dimity or dotted swiss makes the prettiest curtains in the world for asleep ing room. They aro evor so much prettier than Nottingham or other cheap laces. Then make your bedspread of the same material and line it with silesia of the prevailing oolor in your room. Make your bureau scarf and mantel and drosser draperies of tho same matorial. You can ruffle them with some of the same, or got some of the inexpensive laces to edge them with. They are so easy to launder, and look so much daintier than anything else that it is a wonder that these materials are not used instead of tho silk and velvet that catch dust and odors and hold them.— Kansas Oity Times.

Household Inventions.

A convenient little invention for kitchln use Is one that combines funnel and strainer. It has a handle and may be used with or without the strainer, which fits into the bottom. Without it it can bo used for filling fruit jars or bottles. In a small size the inverted funnel makes a biscuit outter

Another invention that appears to be a great convenience is a. gas iron, with a rubber tube four feet long, that can be attached to the gas fixture in any room, making it possible to Iron in a oool place, with an iron that Is always hot, at a trifling cost. The iron is nickel plated, and the only objection to it seems to be its weight, which is pounds.

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Emotional women age and get ugly long before their time. Crying, weeping, fretting, frowning, pouting, worrying and other expressions of impatience and resentment make fearful inroads on beauty. Quiet Women with plain faoes are at times positively beautiful. Who has not seen under the hoods of the sisters of charity and beneath the caps of the professional nurses almost oeleetial beauty, whloh, on study, was found to radiate from a sweet spirit, a gentle nature, a sublime superiority to the potty cares? It isn't the features, but the feelings expressed, that make a faoe almost divine. Cheerfulness, amiability and a merry heart are fine cosmetics.—New York World. 1'

CHILDREN'S COLUMN.

THE YOUNGEST RAILWAY MANAGER.

He la a Minnesota Boy and Is President of an Electric Road. Little Archie Cowley of Deilwood, Minn., Is probably the youngest railway manager In the world. Archie is but 7 years old, yet bo controls an entire electrical railroad, It is truo that the road Is but one-tenth of a mile in length. Nevertheless it is fitted out just as completely as any road that is run by grown persons. Archie is prfesident, secretary, conductor, hrakeinan and motorman, while his sisters and playmates are the passengers. The road was built for Arohle by his father, who is a St. Paul banker.

There are throe cars on the road—one motor car and two passenger cars. Each car Is 5 feoli long and 2 feet wide. It is not a trolley road. Instead of a trolley

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wire there ia along strip of iron, which lies between the tracks and supplies the electricity which makes the cars move along. On the motor car is the rheostat, whioh is an arrangement for controlling the electric current. By using it Archie can make his cars move as fast or as slow as he pleases. On this car also are the motor and tho brake, and also the reversing switch which makes the cars move backward.

At ono end of the road is the power house where tho electricity is produced. The eleotrio current comes from a small dynamo, which is driven by a petroleum engine. There is also a shed where the cars aro stored at night and in winter time. In the powerhouse everything is arranged just tho same as if it was a large station run by a regular company.

But Arohle Is the company In this case. His road is on the hill by the side of White Bear lake, and he is tho only boy in that region who is able to go coasting in summer time. Ho himself will tell you the best of all is that In this kind of coasting you do not have, to walk back up the hill. Tho electricity pulls you up. Archie is very proud of his road and spends tho days carrying his sisters and their dolls along the road. He can stop any place on the way, so he pretends there are several stations, and his sisters get out. Then he takes them up again when he comes back and collects mak^ believe money from them. They all have a very good time riding on the cars, and Archie is learning a great deal about electricity.

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"With hands clasped softly in your lap, And hair tucked back beneath your cap, And snowy kerchief trimly crossed. And lifted eyes in reverie lostFriend Phoebe, won't you tell me why ,, You look so far away and sigh? Why don't you leave your little cbalr And take the sunshine and fresh alrf "Friend Edith, I will tell thee why I sit so still and sometimes sigh. Dear grandma says we can't be right '. Unless we have the 'inner light.' (1 didn't have the Inner light,' Although I tried with all my might.) Well, first day morning grandma goes To meeting always, as thee knows. And either takes John, Ruth or me. I go one morning out of three.

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High up sat old Friend Hathaway. His thumbs upon his cane were placed, And he looked stern and solemn faced. Friend Hodges and Friend Underwood— They wouldn't smile, not If they oould (Thee knows I think they're very good)— Up iu the gallery they sat. Each one looked down beneath his hat And thought and thought and thought and thought, But wouldn't speak out as they ought.

"It was so etlll inside the houae That I could hear the little mouse A-gnawing, gnawing in the wall. Outside it wasn't still at all. The birds were singing in the trees. And I oould hear the boring bees (The clumsy kind of bee that leaves Those little holes along the eaves). It was so very still inside. To keep awake how hard I triedl I ate a peppermint or two.

"But that was very wrong I Irae#. All of a sudden then the birds And bees began to sing these words, •Friend Phoebe, come outside and play* And never mind Friend Hathaway.' It seemed to me I must obey. I walked straight out the open door. No child thee knows did so before.

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"To punish me (I'm sure it's right— I didn't have the Inner light'). I'm not allowed to go and play Till I make op for yesterday. Oh, dear, 1 mustn't speak to thee— It's 'silent meeting'—don't thee seef" —Edith M. Thomas in St. Nicholas.

£dna and the Chksken.

Edna was In the kitchen wafcchLflg tho dressing of a chicken. Another chicken rotww straying in at the door from the farmyard. "Oh, quick!" she cried. "Here comes another chicken. Catch him and peel him too."

A Load of Them.

Albert always has cotton put In his ear when he has the earache. Seeing awagon loaded with cotton one day he exctaliDedi "My! VPTbat a lot erf earaohesl"

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HOPE KILLS DESPAIR.

AND BEAUTIFUL RESULTS SURELY FOLLOW. A There Is One Thing Ton Want Badly and

Must Have—Even if Ton Have Given Up Possessing It This will Give Ton Hope. Neuralgia and nervousness are fearful ly prevalent. There is no more painful disease than neuralgia. It indicates a diseased state of nerves and blood and the most terrible suffering Is often present.

Most everybody is nervous, anSthis.ls more dangerous than most people think, for, as in the case of the well-known S. W. Anderson, Esq., of Warren, Mass., it is very liable to lead to nervous prostration and paralysis, if not cured. He writes as follows about his wonderful recovery: "Some time ago I was afflicted with nervousness and neuralgia. The pains I suffered were frightful. They commenced in tny legs and arms and then went to my head and face. Finally I had a paralytic shock on my right side whtch laid ine up completely. *'I continued suffering the most terrible agony from neuralgia and was near: ly dead with pain. I took everything I ever heard of but got no better. Icon suited four doctors but they did me no good. Tbey said, there was nothing but morphine pills that wouid help me.

I took them for nearly a year and was no better but began to get even worse. I heard of a skillful doctor in Worcester, Mass., and went there to see him. He s«id he could cure me in a week. I staid there three da}s and then went home. "The day after I got home I was taken worse than ever 1 had been before and my suflerings were more than I could endure.

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continued to grow worse every day all through the fall and winter, then I became so bad that I bad the pain almost constantly, and 1 could not have lived but a very short time longer if help had not been very close at hand. "My wife saw the advertisement of Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy and she wanted me to use it. Having heard it very highly spoken of I decided to try it although I had made up my mind I was about through with this world. "The first bottle I took stopped the pain entirely and my Improvement was steady and sure from that time until I was cured. I oould not have lived more than a week longer if I had not taken Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. "I am thankful to God for this medl olne, it is the bfst remedy that ever came before the public. I thank Dr. Greene and I hope that he will be rewarded here in this world and the world- to come. "lam constantly recommending it and shall always continue to. I advfSe everybody to take this moat wonderful medicine for it will make them strong, healthy and vigorous."

You must have health. You want to be strong and well. Then why don't you take this greatest of all medicines, Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy? It will surely cure you. Try it.

It Is recommended and used by physicians because it is the discovery and pre scriptlon of that most successful special iat in curing nervous and chronic diseases, Dr. Greene, of 35 West 14th street, New York. The doctor is consulted with by physicians themselves, in regard to nervous and chronic diseases and all may have his advice 5ree by calling or writing.

Doer Statistics.

Statistics havo been oompilcd at Vienna of tLo quantity of beer drank in 1898 in the entire world. Germany heads the list with 1,202,182,074 gallons, an increaeo of 84,000,000 over 1892, fao consumption being 88 gallons per head, ranging from 82 gallons in Bavaria to 12 gallons in Lothringen Great Britain second, 1,105,752,000 gallons, or CO per head America, including the whole of the western hemisphere, is third, with more than a billion gallons, or 16 per head. The total for the world, not including Asia and Africa, is 4,500,000,000 gallons, requiring 7,270-000 tons of malt and 82,000 tons of hops.

To Cook an Old Hen.

When so eminent a sclintist as Professor W. Mattieu Williams thought it worth his while to experiment with this somewhat tough subject for gastronomic contemplation, It may not be amiss to profit by the result of his experiment. He took a hen 8 years old, but otherwise In good condition, and cooked it slowly In water for four hours, then let it stand In the water until the next day, when It was roasted for about an hour, basting frequently with some of the broth in which it was simmered. It was then pronounced as tender and fine flavored as a young chicken roasted in the ordinary way, notwithstanding the-good broth obtainetfby stewing. ...

The use of Hall's Hair Renewer promotes the growth of the hair, and restores Ito natural oolor and beauty, frees the sealp of dandruff, tetter, and all lmpurities.

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ARMOUR'S POOR RELATIONS.

The Big Packer Tells a Funny Story About One He Hasn't Made Rich. It has been a matter of current reportfor years among board of trade men that Phil Armour has no poor relations, say& a Chicago newspaper man. "He will not allow any of them to remain poor,,r a veteran of tho board remarked by way of explanation of this unusual good fortune of a rich man. "He makes them all rich." "I have heard that story before," Mr. Armour remarked, with a smile, when one of his friends asked him about it the other day.

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enough of them.'' Then the big packer burst out in a laugh, and his friends knew a good story was coming. "One of the poor kind—he lives down in Illinois—is one of the most persistent men I ever knew. He keeps writing and writing for money all the time. He is not a bad fellow, only improvident, and if he displayed the same energy in attending to business that he does in writing to me he would have been rich along time ago. Well, he kept sending one letter after another, saying that if he only had $500 he would be all right. He repeated this so often that one day I told my secretary to send a letter saying that if he would't bother me for a year I would send him $500." "Well, sir," and Mr. Armour's sides shook with laughter, "as soon as th& mails could bring a reply I got it. H& said, 'Make it $1,000 and two years,' and I thought it was such a clever turn that I sent the money.'' "What happened next?" "In about three months he wrote again, saying the agreement was off because his wife hadn't been included.''

Mr. Armour seemed to think thewhole thing was a great joke and especially enjoyed the shrewdness of hispoor relation.

PULLMAN'S LEGAL ADVISER.

Bobert T. Lincoln, Son of Old Abe, Said toHold This KesponHible Position.

Since his return from the court of St. James little has been seen of Robert T. Lincoln. He dropped almost entirely out of sight after reaching his old home. Occasionally he would be seen, at the Chicago club, but he never appeared in court and did not go often to his law office in the Woman's temple. Some of Mr Lincoln's friends remarked, he was out of the legal swim and added that the honor of representing his country at St James had proved very expensive.

These solicitous friends were very much misinformed. Mr. Lincoln iskept quite busy in the law business. He is the personal legal adviser of Georg&> M. Pullman and spends practically all his time in the office of "the palace car magnate. When Mr. Pullman leaves, town, ex-Minister Lincoln aocompanieshim. They are constant and inseparable* oompanions. By those who think they oan detect Mr. Lincoln's style it isclaimed that all of the prepared interviews and correspondence credited to Mr. Pullman since the strike began were the work of ex-Minister Lincoln. "Corporation law—Pullman corporation especially—is queer business for jv son of Abo Lincoln to be engaged in," said one of liia father's admirers yesterday. "I w-'ulcr what Abraham would, say if ho v»cro still in the flesh and oould sjitiiik to tlj.' ^oii who has bocu advising Mr. Pullman how to starve his. employees into subjection.' —Chicago Herald

A ririt For Woman,

Wo make a groat mistake in deprivingono sox of voioo in public matters, and w& could in no way so increase tho attention, the intelligence and tho devotion which may he brought to the solution of social problems by enfranchising our women. Even if in a ruder state of soclcty the intelligtenoo of one sex suffices for tho management of common interests, the vastly more intricate, delicate and importantquestions which the progress of civilization makes of public moment require the Intel! igonoc of women as of mon, and thatwo never can obtain until wo interest them public nffairs. And I havo come to believe that very much of tho inattention, tho flippancy, the want of conscience which wo soo manifested in regard to public matters of the greatest moment arises from the fact that we debar our women from taking their proper part in thesomatters.—Henry George.

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THAT BEARING DOWN FEELING* [SPECIAL TO O0B X.APY BBADMS.J The recovery of Lucretia Osborne Putnam of Forristdale, Mass., was really wonderful. She had been sick for years.

She was utterly prostrated, and seemed beyond a hope of cure.

Her spine, heart, liver, and brain were all seriouslyaffected.

The weight of her body upon her feet would cause dizziness, faintness, and

terrible pains in her back, and it was sometimes several hours before she could dress.

This woman's trouble was in her womb, effecting her whole constitution. She was crushed with that indescribable feeling'of bearing down, and suffered agonies that would appal a man.

She found new life in

ham's

Lydia E. Pink-

Vegetable Compound.

She says: "I am like one raised from the dead. I was sick so long I thought I never could get well...

The suffocating, gasping attacks and awful bearing down feeling left me, appetite returned, and my friends won-gg^my^ dered at my improved looks. I believe Mrs. Pinkham's remedies area sure cure for t&£ misery of our sex." .»