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Show H A MARRIED SPINSTER. SETTING TYPE IN JAPAN. Cach Compositor Hag a Boom to Hlm--; M elf and a Number of 'Assistants. MARRIED spin- The composing room of a Japanese ster! Isn't spinster-Hoo- d office Ameriwould an left behind printing appall can printer. The ordinary vo-a person marJapanese when eabulary Is represented by 4,427 diffe- n ries? Left behind? rentcharacters or ideographs and No, marriage Is no simple cnarajcters, known as kana, more a saving orditrhieh are used to connect and comnance than is bapplete them. It would require at least B0,000 varieties of letters' to answer all tism, and that it demands of does not change published possible literature. Think ofJapanese case a printer's our natures many a containing .80,000 compartments. married bachelor The government is endeavoring to testify. simplify the Japanese vocabulary and anrJ sbinster can on this little flying lived reduce It to reasonable limits. A comhaving No, know whereof I I some mission of scholars and philologists was ball years, speak! By the way, did you ever meet appointed some time ago by the minister of education upon the recommendaMehitableLong? She lived many years tion of a national teachers' convention, in that old farmhouse behind the big and they are said to be making some spreading oak on the way to Hopper-towprogress, although their task is a most Mehitable had cnaracter, quandifficult one. of its kind, A font of Japanese type occupies a tities of it, and very good space about eight or ten feet square. too. He1 father was no Carthaginian, and It is a pen of racks and cases, arrayed! on in the form of a hollow square, with a did not lay her helpless baby hands cominarrow passage to afford an entrance the altar of home and country, and exit. The chief compositor sits at pelling her to take an oath against that a table in the center with a case con- enemy of womankind matrimony. Not kana at all. Yet she was as decided as taining a supply of the before him and a long peculiar-lookinNow, he had been composing stick in his hand. He cuts though Mehitable "me. misunderstand his copy Into small "takes" and gives don't was no fool, and did not go about railone to each of his five or six assistants, who are usually small boys and girls ing against the men. She treated all with amazing memories. They have frankly and courteously, and had warm their own composing sticks, and, with friends bf both sexes. But the pyramid their "takes" held deftly with the com- of Egypt was not more firmly based on posing sticks in their left hands, they its native soil than she was on a derush around in front of the cases and termination to remain, through good pick the type that are needed from the and evJl report, a fixed member of the bewildering mass of cases, singing and respectable sisteraloud the name of the character until forty-feTe- n. , forty-seve- n g oath-boun- d. d highly-respecte- - v -- hood ol spinsters. She used to declare: "The legend on my tombstone shall be they find it The work of composition Is; therefore, a bedlam, which would drive an American printer out of hir wits. When a boy has collected all the characters In his "take" he places the com- posing stick with the copy upon the table before the chief compositor, who wears a big pair of strong magnifying Classes, and he arranges them in his own stick in their proper order, inserting the kana from his own case when they are needed. Then he dumps them on a galley and turns them over to th4 proper attendant, who pulls a proof and takes it with the copy to the proofreader, who reads it aloud while his assistant holds the copy and follows him. It is explained that children are used to assist the compositor because they have better memories than adults, and their little fingers are more deft in picking the type out of the narrow slips, and the extraordinary memory of a child compositor is always amazing to the stranger in Japan. A case of type is about three feet long and two feet wide, divided into two grand divisions by a horizontal partition. Then each division Is subdivided into equal 'little narrow slips just wide enough to admit the type, which axe all of the same size, and stand on end with their faces upward. There are usually forty slips in each division and eighty in each .case. The case are usually double, and therefore contain 160 different characters. On each rack are twelve cases and 1,820 kinds of type on each rack, so that twelve racks will carry a very full font of type, containing about 23,000 characters, sufficient to supply almost any demand. The on dinary composing room contains about ix racks, or a 10,000 variety of type, with plenty of room for sorts. Chicago 'Mehitable Long, spinster; age ninety-ninjnever had an offer.' " Time sped on, and treated my friend, in its liberal way, with its bitter and its sweet but not once had she swerved from (her early determination, and I should have as soon thought of hearing that the great pyramid had been caught waltzing with the sphinx as to hear that Mehitable Long contemplated treachery to the sisterhood. Likie a thunderbolt dropped from a clear December sky came the news that Mehitable was engaged to be married to a man. You may pronounce the close of myj assertion a superfluity, as women generally marry men; but I emphatically declare that my astonishment was intensified by that very fact. It seemed to mej that Mehltable's marriage should change the whole natural yorder of r things. But why linger? She married, and went-j-wit- h her husband, too on a wedding tour. Somehow, it could have been borne with more equanimity had they iaken separate journeys. In Process of time, after the effects of the shock had somewhat subsided, I went to pay the married spinster a visit. Several years had passed since her catastrophe, and her family now numbered three, the third one being little Hcipe, a child born in the memorable blizzard of 1888, and as remarkable as the child of a spinster and a blizzard should be. Now, do not for a moment think) that I am casting any reflections jpon the exceedingly worthy Jeremiah, who pears the trials of his life, and especially of his married life, with a fortitude approaching, if not reaching, sublinlity. On ithe way to the home of my rec- e; Record. Saves a Fortune. Monterey, Tenn., (Special) fur prominent citizens here, One Col. of James E. Jones, secretary and treasurer of the Cumberland Mountain Coal Co., is on the high, road to make his fortune, and attributes .the fact- to his recent cure from the tobacco habit. He was an Inveterate user of tobacco for many years, consuming so much as to make ferious inroads on both his purse and comhis health. One box of cured him, and he gained seven pletely pounds in less than two weeks. Within three days after starting to use Bac the desire for tobacco was entirely gone. Col. Jones says to all tobacco r users that will do as and is worth by far more than - j No-To-B- ac recom-mend- too. "Mamma," she said one day, from her morning toilet, ""see how my apron is tied! Papa did it. Just like a man. Mans can't do anything. Such gumps! I do wonder if any mans ever had com- mon sense?" Usually Mehitable would take exception to Miss Hope's wholesale criticism of - mankind, but just now, being absorbed in studying the only kind of literature she abominated, and the only kind she had time to read now the cook-boo- k her daughter's remarks were unheeded. Mrs. Jeremiah's single life had been or among her spent in the school-roobooks, and so she found herself less skillful in housekeeping than her better trained sisters. Not being one of those who die and make no sign, the strong language with which she interlarded her household duties was sometimes startling, and, from its very originality, decidedly strengtening that is, to me and I fancy to Jeremiah, for his lamentations were always almost always silent ones. I had forgotten to say that some time before my visit the host had met with a narrow escape from a broken neck by breaking his thigh, and poor Mehitable had been for weeks, with all her other duties, the nurse of a helpless, nervous man. Her patience seems to have been worn quite threadbare, and she shocked into speechlessness, one day, poor little Mrs. Breecheslover by adjuring Jeremiah to be sure, the next time he went into bone breaking, to make it his neck and have done with it once and forever. Still, for all that, she neglected no wifely duty, and her's was a Jeremiah m, i without his lamentations. a process rememenat slender times, long, quiring toes from the apple trees about, was, in the mind of Mehitable, cooking and and baking, particularly Next to Hope-raisin- g, cake-maki- ng will not be a very long time before you'll be. glad you're not a turkey. to ba the custom out West J The It is wnen a getting Dans xsuspena3 to suspend tne president also. ng road to a man's heart was through his stomach. rreant friend, I amused myself by imagining the changes the experiences- of married life might have produced. She had ways been fond of standing on intellectual heights, and her dearest and most intimate friends were the ts of her treasured library ; and triumphant. .with tier fine taste and, keen apprecia-tioni- c reigned But let it be otherwise. Let the f literature was a corresponding cake, after promises of good behavior, g dislikB of the hum-drufall into the sulks as it sometimes did round of household work. from the oven and be How will it be now, with both Jere- when taken all streaked through with faint hints miah and little Hope to feed and care of what it might have been, and very for? Has she become a vine, hanging solid assertions as to what it. was over the wall metaphorically JereO, my countrymen! O, Jeremiah, miahs a vine fruitful in household then, and little Miss Midget, beworks ? Can it be that my friend. Me- - Graysaida ware! No; "Lead, kindly Light" as httab e, wno always stood so uncom- - cendedfrom the lower but an promisingly on her own roots, has by ominous silence brokenregions; at intervals by some mysterious process become a more ominous of wrath. mutterings clingi ag matrimony vine? And is Jere- Then a silent Jeremiah, ,,an miah the supporting trellis? not but penitent Hope, and a "Ceatripolis!" screamed the con- resentful and disgusted Graysaida, take ductor and gathering together great, their at the dinner table, preplaces middle-size- d and; little bundles, I went a over sided weary, worn, melanby forh to receive the answer to my abusive and exceedingly sarcasqueries. On the platform stood my choly, r tic hostess. Jeremiah frienc ,' Mehitable, with a combination unfortunately of Mehitable, Jeremiah and blizzard by mentions the. fact that Mrs. Methodocia her side, in the form of Miss Hope. is making cake;'' for the fair, and innoIn justice to the little midget,' let me cently adds that! she is a very successful say the blizzard side was rarely upper- cake maker So like a man! Mehitamost. ble, with a gleam in her dark eyes not The hearty greeting, "I am very glad exactly halving, snaps out that as his to see you once more, Graysaida" her meaning the hapless Jeremiah's highpet name for me in the happy spinster est aim in life is to eat cake, it is a days--w- as reassuring. She had not great' pity he had not married the aclost her identity, then," in the complished Mrs. Methodocia; and then quite thickets of matrimonial perplexities goes on to say, in a general way, that and felicities. We had only to walk Gail Hamilton never spoke a t truer across a little common to be at her truth than when she declared the most door ; and we were soon exchanging direct road to a man's heart was reminiscences of the past and news of through his stomach, and ends by hintthe present. This conversation was not ing gloomily that heaven will, of course, entirely unshared by Miss; Hope, who be peopled by women, and all the more was so often and so emphatically sup- heaven for that very reason, for most' off that morning. Somehow, his pressed by her mother that 3he cdnflded takenfilled as he; looked at them. They to her favorite doll .the opinion that eyes well-behav- ed - .1 oc-cup- an never-endin- m, , j -- . Both the method and results' when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, head-ache- s and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and.truly beneficial m its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any j , ; j i CAUFQIWIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL 12V!SV!LL. KY. h'EW KZX, ft I. apple-twigg- ed . j ' ; . . !; 5 y "two womans was too many to have in the house." Was this belief of Miss er, and he whispered to himself, "Poor Margaret,'" . Perhaps the ghost of those long neglected years of married life rose to confront him in that silent room. He wondered, as" he sat there, how he would feel if this absence was forever if she were really dead! He remembered her patient forbearance, her sweet nature, her affectionate heart, that he had so often set aside. Yes, she had always loved him, he knew that. As he sat and pondered in the loneliness of that room the scales fell from his eyes. He saw clearly his neglect, his selfishness, his blindness. He had an abundance of time to be sorry in, for six months Is quite a period to live through when one is miserable. One day, in Brussells, Margaret handed Aunt Elizabeth a most lover-lik- e letter. "Read It, Aunt Elizabeth,", said he, with shining eyes, "I believe Robert really begins to miss me at last." But she stayed the six months, and in g the in the Old World forIn a got, measure, the long ears of pain that lay behind. Her eyes took on a brighter, happier expression, the sight-seein- face filled out into its old roundness, and In the bracing atmosphere of Aunt EHz ibeth's presence, new scenes and new people, Margaret, at thirty, began to look more like the old Margaret of twelve years, ago. And Robert Allison? As the months rolled by and it became nearly time to expect her, he could scarcely understand the impatience with which he waited. He longed inexpressibly to see her again, to tell her how much he had missed her, and that he had never ceased to love her. After all, she was his wife, the one creature in the world nearest him. He treated her with coldness and indifference, but he knew now that he had always loved her. He would never let her go again, he thought dear Margaret! Among the anxious watchers for the great steamer that was expected one morning stood a tall, handsome man. He walked back and forth with eager impatience, as the great ship came nearer and nearer. Ah, now she was nearly at her pier; now she had reached it. What a scene that was. What a torrent of kisses and embraces were given and exchanged. What a clattering of voices. What laughs and what tears. A few uninterested spectators who stood by noticed particularly the figure of a tall, beautiful woman, clad in a dark blue dress. She was closely followed by a little old lady, in black, and she seemed to be looking for some one; but not long, for, with a little cry of joy, she saw her husband and as Robert Allison felt the fresh, sweet lips press his own so lovingly, and beheld, after six long, weary months of waiting, that beloved face, he vowed that henceforth and forever the first care of his life would be to make her happy, and he realized as he had never before, as he held her close, close to his heart, the tender forbearance of a woman's love. He had found out what life was without her, and he told her himself, as he looked into the radiant face, that without her it was not worth living. Aunt Elizabeth smiled a shrewd little smile when Margaret told her, a few days afterward. "My dear," said she, in that wise way of hers, "men need to be handled with the1 nicest of tact and judgment. Married life is apt to blunt the keen edge of affection, and proee monotonous, but, in spite of carelessness and Indifference, the love is there. It only needs careful training to bring it to the surface. Don't merge your individuality into that of your husband, and when you find yourself running into a rut, run away and soe the world and its ways. Meekness is one of the finest of virtues, but we can have too much of it. There, my dear, I have preached long enough. Any one can see that Robert is a changed man. I am glad he profited by the lesson we gave him. But, then, I knew he would," and Aunt Elizabeth bestowed an affectionate pat on Margaret's shoulder, as she left the room. "Yes, Aunt Elizabeth," said Margaret, looking after her with grateful g baking. On day we all walked softly,like Agag, thinking, unlike that poor pagan, "surely the bitterness of death has come," and Mehitable was generally left to wrestle alone with her burden. Jeremiah then stalked silently to his fields, and I not so silently, for I must talk back, but speedily to my room. Of course, Hope, with the perversity of original sin, always made herself particularly obnoxious on such occasions, and received an ordinary prelude to tattoo in consequence. If an apple-twi- g the cake turned out all right, you would hear ascending from the kitchen, in Mehitable's rich, sweet voice, "Lead, kindly Light," and presently a cheery: "Graysaida, come down and see my cake; it's a daisy!" Mehitable would be slangy at times, though she scrupulously taught Hope that slang was a very improper thing for her to use. Then I would venture fearlessly into the presence, and taste of the cake; and Hope, sunny and One at Time, Please. tonic, would bright, after the apple-twi- g wife has presented him me Father (whose in the feast and the share with favor. And when Jeremiah appeared, with twins) Tommy you may stay and at the dinner, he would have his share home from school have two new that teacher the tell you and of cake sunshine, while peace cake-makin- . ed Its weight in gold. It ; cake-maki- No-T- o- No-To-B- ac Hope's, I wondered, an hereditary trait, intensified, as such traits sometimes are? Had Jeremiah' ever felt in hia secret soul that one woman was sometimes too many? Supper-tim- e came, and with it Jeremiah. He received me very cordially, did Jeremiah. He was always most pleasant to the early friends of Mehitable; from a sense of honor, I think, for Jeremiah was an honorable man. He must have felt, and keenly at times, that he had dared to set' at naught one of the great natural laws, and that a life "of atonement would scarcely condone the error. It suddenly dawned upon me, at the table, when the host received an emphatic reproof for some absent-minde- d neglect of the rites of hospitality, that Mehitable was still some distance from the vine age, and still stood with considerable firmness upon her own roots. My visit at the home of my friend had a certain spicing at times that made it decidedly exhilarating. Miss Hope was no small factor there, and of course the midget had a realizing sense of her own importance. All the wells of Jeremiah's being were filled to the brim with love for the child and she was, most times, a nice, loving little thing, Her mother's keen insight into the follies and weaknesses of men were her's, reminded him, as he took one caressingly in his hand, of their gentle wear to-d- ay to-morr- ow brothers. Tommy Wouldn't it be better to say I have only one new brother? Then I can stay home a day next week for the other one? Oakland Times. HUMOROUS. There is a difference between a cold and the grip, but you will not realize it until you receive the doctor's bill. Truth. Learned in History Teacher : "When did the thirty years' war commence?" Pupil: "I don't know, sir; but if you will tell me when it left off I can reckon up." Fliegende Blaetter. "Where do you live, Johnny?" asked the nice young woman in thei waifs mission. "Dunno." "You don't know?" "Naw! wasn't home de last time de folks moved." Detroit News. "How vain you are, Effie! Looking at yourself in the glass !" "Vain, Aunt Emma? Me vain! Why, I don't think myself half as good looking as I really am!" Du Maurier in Punch. Weary Watkins Wot's de matter, pardner? Did she throw water in yer face? Hungry Higgins Only on me face; only on me face. I had the presence of mind to shut me mouth when I seen it coming. Indianapolis Journal. Old gentleman (putting a few questions) Now, boys ah can you tell me what commandment Adam broke when he took the forbidden fruit? Small scholar (like a shot) Please, sir, th' warn' t no commandments then, sir,' eyes, "If it had not been for you life would have been a very different matter." And as she heard her husband's step, and looked into a; face that was not cold or Indifferent any longer, she felt Inexpressibly thankful to wise, worldly, good; shrewd Aunt Elizabeth. Susan Hubbard Martin. j ' COOKING IN ITALY. The Food Is Cheap, but an Oven la - Unknown, k Although the working people have not much money, they receive satisfactory returns from it as a rule, says' an exchange. Food is cheap. A poor man can go to market and buy the leg of a turkey for 3 cents as a! dainty for his sick wife, or if that is beyond his means he can for 2 cents get the head, neck and feet of a chicken and make a mlnestra (broth). "Little at a time" and "pay as you go" are two household mottoes in this land of thrift, even in At first" the homes of the this seems strange to us, but we are rapidly becoming accustomed to the picturesque inconveniences of housekeeping and buy in small quantities like the rest. Our kitchen is a long, narrow apartment, paved with bricks. The working apparatus extends a!most the entire length of the room; it is built out from the wall and is, in fact, neither more nor less than a solid block of masonry, about twelve feet long, four feet high and three feet deep. We might call it a counter built of bricks and mortar covered with a heavy stone slab. Above this hangs the flaring chimney cap, projecting its black gaping mouth over the entire length of th counter. At regular Intervals in the stone slab there are three openings about a foot square and a foot and a half deep, with a grate at the bottom of each, and on the face of the counter are three corresponding openings, which connect with the upright ones below the grate and thus serve for a draught. A charcoal fire is made in each grate and is coaxed into life with a primitive fan of cock's feathers. The teakettle, soup pot, double boiler, saucepans, frying-pans and fish kettle all jostle one another around the edge of two of these apertures. The third aperture is reserved for state occasions, two being considered sufficient for ordinary family use. An oven in a private house is unknown. The bread is bought at the baker's and the cake and pastry at the confectioner's. Our joints are on a in roasted front of red-hspit coals, Which are piled on top of the stone slab against the wall and directly under the chimney. The meats are kept thoroughly basted with the drippings from the pan which stands underneath the spit and are constantly turned, so that every part is browned and crisped in the most appetizing man- Mr. Dllllng ham's Christ bo glad that be Christmas,", said Mr "I'm ever rr?n tf z wearily, aa he came in and overcoat. "A man who workssV3 I d!o needs a holiday a good i than he gdts one. It's an imW95-- -: to know that I don't have togSf morning and hmS&f to store," runs a story; in Puck "I'm sure it must be," reniA , DiUingham, as she kissed her iV "How do you expect to! put in tS? There are several little tht laid out to do. I've been?SSS the window, and door W?pTs since I took them in when thft t tc' 2? but I haven't seemed to It. They will last longer wuffivV' ter if they receive a good coat Zh'-whethey are put away for th "I suppose that is Juiie trQ?5 n Dillragham asserted. "After I gea tihe fly Mr. Dillingham went on,ffi . and smooth them m lengths e well, and jack-plan- t m ' ; well-to-d- o. ner. I h'-pain- put upi that set of shelves In th ;! that you have wanted for so Ion ? planks I have In the cellar ' wiuda ot 1 J to-morr- I can saw them too I in an hour. I tts : Tt!J ;0t t plai very handy with tools before w& to the city, If you remember " "Yes, indeed; I remember the Pu window, seat you made in our W'1 Northvtlle. Haw happy we were ST own home when we were first Mrs. Dillingham lost herself feSl spection for a minute or two andtv added: "I've often thought I'd iik have a window seat in the sitting here. If you'd hammer one up l'? JJv some comfortable cushions forit j would be such a convenience like a new sofa!" "Very well, dear; I'll do that aft put up the set of shelves in Uie panJr while I have my tool chest out ffi! more lumber in the cellar tihan I sv need for the shelves." "Is that all you have to do on GhtJ "An fucc ; i . ery ?f srho fflO brea jbo i bo1 J fjjr as 111! r,J jratt .iat iast i lan s iatei ecas aW "Yes, I think tlhat's all." hmo "After that. love. I wish the two bedrooms in the mansard. Th?' ,Yat need it so dreadfully, for they have-- ' ;ty. been papered in years. I bought achi real nice paper down town at i' ".ad great bargain, and it was deliverers' tegis while ago. If yau'H get these .Is n: done, Benjamin, dear, you may have a' ,:ass the rest of the holiday for your ' ,irin to-da- y iat The Modern Mother. Has found that her little kt t ones are ;arie! in proved more by the pleasant laiatlvt i Syrup of Figs, when In need of th j laxative effect of a gentle remedy, that by any other, and that it is more a. ceptable to them. Children enjoy and it benefits them. The true re; edy, Syrup of Figs, is manufactured ithe California Fig Syrup Co., only. 1 I I; l- I One thing may be said in favor of Ctf;' he did not try to escape the penalty of t crime by trying the insanity dodge. j i The John A. Salzer Seed Co.., of Crosse, Wis., have recently purchase: the complete catalogue trade of Northrup, Braslan, Goodwin Co., Minneapolis and Chicago. This gw the Salzer Seed Co. the largest cat logue mail trade in the world and the; are in splendid shape to take care same, sls they have recently complete; a large addition to their mammoth sees. houses. The 1896 catalogue is Justottj and the largest ever issued. Settle. any address for 5 cents to cover postap Ls c The Mae pie and His Parrot. A Magpie who was Chattering Away at a Lively rate was Aproached by a Parrot, who Sneeringly said: "What an Awful, awful Row! Are you trying to Scare all the Children to Death?" "You are a nice Specimen to Sneer at my Music!" replied the, indignant Magpie. "If I had your Voice I'd go hang myself!" "And if I had yours I'd Sing to a Pole Cat." "This little Matter can be Easily Settled," observed the Parrot, after a moment's Thought. "Let us go into the Garden of the Musician and Sing for him and leave it for him to Decide." It being so Agreed, the two Birds perched themselves on a Limb near the Musician's window and began their Songs. Each was trying his Best to Excel the other when the Alarmed and Enraged Referee rushed out with a Club and exclaimed: "Great General Scott! but if you don't Clear Out of this I'll have your Lives! It's Worse than a Horse Fiddle!" Moral: Vanity and Boasting are but a Thin Cover over one's Weaknesses. c! W.N. j What the country needs is a new brand I thermometer that will pull the price of ecu down when it pulls down the mercury, j An old maid said that she wishes she f!s an auctioneer, for then it would be'perfe. proper for her to say: "Make me anoftej A sad sight in this world is an old hen tr Ing to plume herself to look chic. Rich Red Blood of health. The wg have Rich, Red, Healthy mo: U IB W the foundation Is 1T 3 for friendless children, illustrates this characteristic of eloquence. "I was standing," he said, "at my front door one bitter day in winter, when a little ragged chap came up to me and asked me for an order of admission. To test him I pretended to' be rather rough with him. " 'How do I know if what you tell me is true? Have you any friends to for you?' speak " 'Friends!' he shouted. 'No, I ain't got no friends, but if these 'ere rags' and he waved his arm about as he spdke 'won't speak for me nothin' else will.' " Municipal Ownership: in England. London ia following the lead of some of the English and Scotch cities in retaining control of municipal franchises; The London authorities! now stipulate what use shall be made of the streets by those engaged in the transportation of passengers, what wages, they shall pay employes and the number of hours constituting a day's labor. W. L. aine, se.in r FOR ASK YOUR DEALER the t T Of sat POUCLAf 3. SHOE s U832 25oen& cure all Liver Ills. Hood's Pills 1 Xkmg: Sarsapariila Eloquence. "Eloquence is speaking out out of the abundance of the heart," say the author of "Guesses at Truth." An incident related by Dr. Barnardo, the English philanthropist who cares J 13 BESvW. for shoes, ext and g r Mr. I - 0; stion Storia ted If you pay 4 to 86 amine the W. L. Douglas Shoe, see what a good shoe you can buy for 'prese; WIDTH. ;S3, 11 OVER IOO STYLES AND CONGRESS, rred and LACE, deJ) ? 1863 kinds of the hettteim leather by skilled e men. make and sell more ) 3 goye thai ;1 elei Shoes $3 than any manufacturer in the world. and None genuine unless name price is stamped on the bottom. Ask your dealer for our S4 S3.50, 83.50, S2.25 Shoes; S2.SO, S3 and 81.75 for boys. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. If yur.de?? cannot supply you, send cents and 36 tory, enclosing price to pay carriage. State kmd,stie and of toe (cap or plain), size fill width. Our Custom Dept. will Illus new for Send order. your trated Catalogue to Box it. W. L. DOUGLAS, r U M T I I I I a - . Tit-Bit- s. . The Papers. "Oh, you make me sick," exclaimed Humanity, petulantly. The Microbe sneered. 'You must believe everything you see about me: in the papers,' it re- joined. Detroit Tribune. i l DR. 'What's the latest thing out?' Asked a gossipy he; 'I think," was the answer, "My elbows must be." , PILE Drugfiau or mail. 6O0. I- - - ind. Bleediug or BO-SA-4-K- OS Bf,?,?" fl -- .it Co; Hi 4 Late Princinal Hatniner Hard Times. The black sheep is often the smartest Shakespeare mentions perfumes as H of the flock. in common use in his time. . PltS for CURE SURE Protru.Itching and wuv nnw'T Yflll U BUY Jig fney 7m?l anrin corn " ' PRODUCERS, Mil how to j 1 .h.M nf tion and book on a CO.. . gti p w. pecul"tlon til La8alle St., u". ! . v. uenver. When .writing to adwi that you saw the advertisement. J i plea-- jfo v i |